LYELL, Charles.

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The Student's Elements of Geology. Fourth edition, revised from the first of 1838, of this manual by the greatest British geologist of the 19th century. Elements of Geology "reviewed the whole stratigraphical record, from the most recent formations back to the most ancient, interpreting it in terms of the 'uniformity' of terrestrial processes through time" (ODNB).Provenance: Stephen C. Massey.

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