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  3. A Selection of the Geological Memoirs Contained in the Annales des Mines
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2013
    10 May 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139225212
    9781108048408
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139225212
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.51kg, 406 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796–1855) was a talented and influential geologist. A friend of Mary Anning, he produced the famous lithograph Duria antiquior (1830), the first reconstruction of a scene from an ancient world, to support her work. He promoted government involvement in geology and became the founding Director of the British Geological Survey, which was officially recognised in 1835. Inspired by his work in Cornwall, he later founded the Royal School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology. Among his published works was a Manual of Geology (1831), which went through three English editions and was published in France, Germany and America. This 1824 collection of translations includes studies on sites across Europe and notes on the production of an early geological map of France. He also provides a table of equivalent formations and a translation of Brongniart's Classification of the Mixed Rocks.

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