The Geological sciences in the antebellum South /

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Imprint:University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1982.
Description:195 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Geology -- Southern States -- History -- Congresses.
Geology.
Southern States.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/484180
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Other authors / contributors:Corgan, James X.
Geological Society of America. Southeastern Section
ISBN:0817300767
Notes:Papers originally presented at a symposium held during a Southeastern sectional meeting of the Geological Society of America in Birmingham, March 1980.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [171]-185.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Andrew Ellicott's geological observations in the Mississippi Valley and Florida in 1796-1800 / George W. White
  • South Carolina state geological surveys of the nineteenth century / Anne Millbrooke
  • Early American geological surveys and Gerard Troost's field assistants, 1831-1836 / James X. Corgan
  • Mineral fertilizers in Southern agriculture / Richard C. Sheridan
  • William Barton Rogers and the Virginia Geological Survey, 1835-1842 / Michele L. Aldrich and Alan E. Leviton
  • Southern influences on the career of Joseph Nicollet / Martha Coleman Bray
  • Antebellum geological surveys in Kentucky and their contribution to the Shaler surveys of the 1870s / Ivan L. Zabilka
  • Charles Lyell's observations on southeastern geology / Daniel D. Arden
  • The second geological career of Ebenezer Emmons / Markes E. Johnson.