Geographical Evolution
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1879
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 25 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Approachable1 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendHarvard Classics, Volume 30P. F. Collier, 1910The lecture is otherwise hard to find; it appears in this volume of scientific papers, freely available online.
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A lecture the Scottish geologist gave to the Royal Geographical Society in 1879 and published in its Proceedings. Geikie argues that the present outlines of continents and oceans are the outcome of a long history that geology can read, illustrating it with the making of Europe, from the ancient rocks of Scandinavia and the Highlands through the successive seas whose sediments form the plains and mountains, to the recent ice age. Geography, he says, must be studied as evolution.
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