Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present (Geological Society Special Publication No. 143)

Cover......Page 1 Frontispiece......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Part 1. The life and influence of Lyell......Page 10 Lyell and the Principles of Geology......Page 12 Charles Lyell and the Geological Society......Page 25 Lyell: the man and his times......Page 29 Lyell's reception on the continent of Europe: a contribution to an open historiographical problem......Page 46 Charles Lyell's debt to North America: his lectures and travels from 1841 to 1853......Page 60 Charles Lyell in New York State......Page 77 Charles Lyell and the evidences of the antiquity of man......Page 88 Part 2. Lyell and the development of geological science......Page 99 Lyell's Principles of Geology: foundations of sedimentology......Page 101 The Cenozoic Era: Lyellian (chrono)stratigraphy and nomenclatural reform at the millennium......Page 115 Lyell and the dilemma of Quaternary glaciation......Page 137 Lyell's views on organic progression, evolution and extinction......Page 152 The age of the Earth and the invention of geological time......Page 156 Charles Lyell and climatic change: speculation and certainty......Page 163 Catastrophism and uniformitarianism: logical roots and current relevance in geology......Page 172 The legacy of Charles Lyell: advances in our knowledge of coal and coal-bearing strata......Page 184 From William Smith to William Whitaker: the development of British hydrogeology in the nineteenth century......Page 202 Part 3. The legacy of Lyell......Page 216 The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus......Page 218 The Carboniferous evolution of Nova Scotia......Page 263 Sequence stratigraphy: a revolution without a cause?......Page 305 Extrusions of Hormuz salt in Iran......Page 317 Mount Etna: monitoring in the past, present and future......Page 337 Earthquakes and Earth structure: a perspective since Hutton and Lyell......Page 350 Humanity and the modern environment......Page 363 Index......Page 369 Backcover......Page 377 Distinguished historians of science give an appraisal of Sir Charles Lyell's life and works, and his influence through his travels across Europe and North America. Leading geologists assess Lyell's subsequent influence on climatology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, coal geology, regional tectonics, volcanology and natural hazards. Modern geological research constructed upon Lyell's legacy illustrates its wealth, 200 years on from his birth