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Measures for measure : geology and the industrial revolution : how carboniferous worlds changed ours forever /
An illustrated explanation of the geological background to the first Industrial Revolution that originated in eighteenth-century Britain.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Dunedin Academic Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Economy in Motion. Travellers' Tales 1: Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe in Pre-Industrial Britain
- Beginning of Coallery: George Sinclair, 'Scoto-Lothiani'
- New Reductions: Iron and 'Charking Coles'
- Steam Engine Works: Newcomen to Watt and Boulton
- Still Waters Run Shallow: Canal Mania
- Travellers' Tales 2: Louis Simond Under Tyneside, 1811
- Part 2. Redress of Time: Carboniferous Worlds Reconstructed. Devonian Prequel: Scintillas, then Splashes of Green
- Carboniferous Tectonic Geography and Climate
- Carboniferous Equatorial Swamp Forests
- Carbon Accumulations and Mineral Additions
- Tectonic Inversion: Preservation of Coal Basins
- Part 3. Legacies: Carbon Cycling, Chimneys and Creativity. Atmospheres, Global Carbon Cycling and Glaciations
- Britain: First 'Chimney of the World'
- Chimneys of the Modern World: von Richthofen's 'Planetary Catastrophe'
- Industrial Sublime and Other Creative Legacies
- Part 4. Landscapes of the Industrial Revolution. South Wales
- England's West Country: Somerset and Gloucestershire
- North Wales
- English South Midlands
- East of the South Pennines (Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire)
- West of the South Pennines (Lancashire/North Staffordshire)
- West and South Cumberland
- Northumberland and Durham
- Scottish Midlands.