The new geology : a textbook for
colleges, normal schools, and training schools; and for the general
reader / by George McCready Price. -- Mountain View, Calif. : Pacific Press Publishing Association, c1923. 726 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Marbled endpapers. Includes index.
Table of Contents
Introduction
-- PART 1. Physiographic geology. The general features of the earth --
The organic features of the earth -- PART 2. Structural geology.
Minerals and rocks -- Rock masses -- PART 3. Dynamical geology. Chemical
work -- The atmosphere as a geological agent -- Running water -- Ice as
a geological agent -- The ocean and its work -- Life: its geological
effects -- Volcanoes -- Heat: its effects and its causes -- Earthquakes
and diastrophism -- Mountains and mountain making -- Mineral veins and
ore deposits -- PART 4. Stratigraphical geology. Classification --
Fossils and their uses in geology -- A general view of the plant and
animal kingdoms -- The pre-Cambrian rocks -- The Paleozoic group, the
Cambrian system -- The trilobites -- Fossil shells -- The Ordovician
system -- Fossil radiates -- The Silurian system -- Fossil fishes -- The
Devonian system -- The Carboniferous system -- The Permian system --
Coal: its occurrence and origin -- The Mesozoic group, the Triassic
system -- The Jurassic system -- The Cretaceous system -- Fossil
reptiles -- The Cenozoic group, the Tertiary system -- The Quaternary
system, the Pleistocene series -- PART 5. Theoretical geology. A brief
history of geology -- Do the fossils occur in a chronological order? --
The circumstances under which the fossils occur -- Scientific methods --
The hypothesis of a world catastrophe -- The origin and antiquity of
man -- Index.
Since the publication of the writer's The
Fundamentals of Geology, there has been a growing demand for a textbook
based on the principles there stated. The presentation of such a
treatise, however, involving the actual reconstruction of the whole
science, has been no easy task. The present volume is only a tentative
effort along this line.
The name of the present volume is not
meant as a challenge; but it is meant as the designation of a method
which the author believes is here employed for the first time in a
geological textbook. Whether the author has always succeeded or not, the
effort has at least been made to keep facts and theories clear and
distinct; and where alternative hypotheses are possible and permissible,
these alternatives are openly stated, and the reader is advised to take
his choice.
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