An Outline Of The Geology Of Canada

Author : Edward John Chapman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330152386
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book An Outline of the Geology of Canada written by Edward John Chapman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Outline of the Geology of Canada: Based on a Subdivision of the Provinces This work was drawn up, in the first instance, to serve as an index or extended syllabus to the author's Lectures on the Geology of Canada, in connection with the Natural Science Department of the University of Toronto. It has been thought, however, that the work may prove acceptable to a wider circle of readers - to all, indeed, who may desire to obtain a general knowledge of the leading geological features of the Dominion, without caring to incur the labour and trouble of gleaning this from the able but necessarily complicated and somewhat fragmentary Reports of our Geological Survey and other detached sources of information. The present essay is, in fact, the only work in which a condensed and systematic view of the geology of the entire Dominion has been attempted. In order to render it more useful to the general reader, the main portion of the work is preceded by a brief geological introduction; and twelve lithographed plates, containing figures of the more common or characteristic fossils of our Silurian and Devonian formations, with outline maps of the Provinces, have been added. These maps are, of course, on too small a scale to admit of detailed information, but they serve to show with sufficient accuracy the various subdivisions adopted in the text. Many of the statements embodied in this outline have been taken, necessarily, from the Geological Reports and from other published sources of information enumerated on pages ix-xi; but these details, carefully sifted from extraneous matter, have been compared in numerous instances with the author's own observations, and have been grouped after his own views. For the generalizations and leading geological subdivisions, adopted in the book, he is, therefore, alone responsible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.