The controversy has to do with the characterization of the strata of the UK, specifically the debate between geologists Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) and James Nicol (1810-1879) concerning the in
The Highlands Controversy is a rich and perceptive account of the third and last major dispute in nineteenth-century geology stemming from the work of Sir Roderick Murchison. The earlier Devonian and
Humans have tried to figure out what formed the landscape of the earth for thousands of years. How were mountains created? Where did lakes and rivers come from? What lies under the surface of the eart
A collection of articles written during the 1970s and early 1980s, arranged in sections on a geological text from antiquity, early ideas about minerals and mineral analysis, and the Earth, method, and
