Geology for Everyman

First published in 1943, this book was intended to be a useful and simply worded guide to geology for the general reader.

Albert Charles Seward (Author), Henry Lyons (Preface by)

9780521238977, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 June 2011

344 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm, 0.38 kg

First published in 1943, this was the last book of the eminent botanist and geologist Sir Albert Seward, who completed the manuscript three days before his death in 1941. The book was intended to be a useful and simply worded guide to geology for the general reader. Seward wished to emphasise the attraction which an understanding of geology could afford to anyone who enjoys a walk over the countryside. After a preliminary survey of the essentials of geology, the book then proceeds as a series of journeys through the British Isles, bringing the geological history and features of various regions under review.

1. Introductory: geology as a hobby
2. Earth's story-book
3. Destruction and reconstruction
4. Rocks
5. The distribution of rocks over the surface of Britain
6. Medals of creation
7. An Arctic Britain
8. From the Glacial period to Britain as it is
9. Changing climates and changing life
10. The flooding of the world
11. Estuaries, lakes and seas from the cliffs of Yorkshire to the coast of Dorset
12. Salt lakes and deserts
13. Forest, delta, and sea
14. Northern lakes and a southern sea
15. The older Palaeozoic seas
16. The end of the journey
17. The procession of life
Index.

Subject Areas: Geology & the lithosphere [RBG]