As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or
Freud, Lyell's" Principles of Geology "has never before been
available in paperback. In this third and final volume, Charles
Lyell (1797-1875) devotes much attention to the "syntax of
geology," that is, to a way of reconstructing the geological past
on the basis of the "grammar" of the present processes he has
described in the earlier volumes. He defines four periods of the
Tertiary--Newer Pliocene, Older Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene--and
argues that the deposits dating from each period demonstrate the
uniformity of processes and environments throughout the Tertiary,
and indeed in earlier periods of earth history.
Martin J. S. Rudwick has compiled a bibliography giving full
references for the sources Lyell cites in all three volumes of the
"Principles."
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