Library of 19th Century Science:
The Golden Age of Geology
MANUAL
OF GEOLOGY
TREATING OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICAN
GEOLOGICAL HISTORY
BY
JAMES D. DANA
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY IN YALE UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF A SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY; CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS; VOLCANOES; REPORTS OF "WILKES'S EXPLORING EXPEDITION, ON GEOLOGY, ON ZO¨OPHYTES, AND ON CRUSTACEA, ETC.
"Speak to the Earth and it shall teach thee."
ILLUSTRATED BY OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE FIGURES IN THE TEXT, AND TWO DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS.
FOURTH EDITION
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
1896
TREATING OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICAN
GEOLOGICAL HISTORY
BY
JAMES D. DANA
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY IN YALE UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF A SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY; CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS; VOLCANOES; REPORTS OF "WILKES'S EXPLORING EXPEDITION, ON GEOLOGY, ON ZO¨OPHYTES, AND ON CRUSTACEA, ETC.
"Speak to the Earth and it shall teach thee."
ILLUSTRATED BY OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE FIGURES IN THE TEXT, AND TWO DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS.
FOURTH EDITION
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
1896