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March 27, 2017 | Earth Sciences

By James X. Corgan,Michele L. Aldrich,Daniel D. Arden,Martha Coleman Bray,Markes E. Johnson,Alan E. Leviton,Anne Millbrooke,Richard C. Sheridan,George W. White,Ivan L. Zabilka

Geological Sciences within the Antebellum South deals 9 essays that offer distinctive information regarding the early geological exploration of the southeastern usa. initially offered lower than the aegis of the Geological Society of the United States, those essays disguise observations and reports made among 1796 and the 1850s. each one essay contains interesting biographic sketches of the writer, a bibliography, and an index.

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