{"product_id":"principles-of-geology-volume-3-9780226497990","title":"Principles of Geology, Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Lyell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Geology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's\u003ci\u003e Principles of Geology \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin J. S. Rudwick has compiled a bibliography giving full references for the sources Lyell cites in all three volumes of the \u003ci\u003ePrinciples\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615111921815,"sku":"9780226497990","price":6557.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226497990.webp?v=1775098111","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/principles-of-geology-volume-3-9780226497990","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}