The Geological sciences in the antebellum South /
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Imprint: | University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1982. |
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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 |
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.