MORANT, Alfred William Whitehead.

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Geological Chart Showing the Order of Superposition, Characters, Fossils, Localities, Thickness, and Uses, of the Various Stratified Rocks. First and only edition of this detailed chart depicting the geologic time scale. It includes information on the extant fossils of various epochs, eras, and periods, their strata characteristics and applications in industry, and the areas of the UK where each is best represented. It also has a scale showing the comparative thickness of each stratum.WorldCat records only five institutional holdings: the British Library, the Natural History Museum, and the universities of Bristol and Liverpool in the UK, and the US Geological Survey Library.Morant (1828-1881) was a fellow of the Geological Society. He also published works on heraldry and antiquities.

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