Siluria : the History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold over the Earth / Roderick Impey Murchison.
The Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) first proposed the Silurian period after studying ancient rocks in Wales in the 1830s. Naming the sequence after the Silures, a Celtic tribe, he believed that the fossils representing the origins of life could be attributed to this peri...
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1854.
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| Series: | Cambridge library collection. Earth sciences.
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