Author: SMITH, James (1782-1867).:
Title: Researches in Newer Pliocene and Post-Tertiary geology.
Description: Glasgow: J. Gray, 1862. 8vo, 19.3cm. Pp. xii,192, ,4 chromolithogr. plates (incl. frontisp.), some figs. in text, notes & refs. Hardbound, old plain cloth-backed boards. Front joint s strengthened, little thumbing to covers, contents good. - Very scarce. Consists of 12 chapters: On the indications of changes of level in the West of Scotland. On the last changes in the relative levels of land and sea in the British Islands. On the phenomenon of the elevated marine beds of the basin of the Clyde. Catalogue of shells from the glacial deposits of Britain and Ireland. On the climate of the Newer Pliocene period. On scratched boulders. On the geology of Gibraltar. Etc.

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