Nonfiction · 1842
Coral Reefs
Volcanic Islands; South American Geology
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Contents
- Note
- Introduction
- Chapter I — Atolls or Lagoon-Islands
- Chapter II — Barrier Reefs
- Chapter III — Fringing or Shore-Reefs
- Chapter IV — On the Distribution and Growth of Coral-Reefs
- Chapter V — Theory of the Formation of the Different Classes of Coral-Reefs
- Chapter VI — On the Distribution of Coral-Reefs with Reference to the Theory of Their Formation
- Critical Introduction
- Chapter I — John W. Judd: St. Jago, in the Cape de Verde Archipelago
- Chapter II — Fernando Noronha; Terceira; Tahiti, Etc
- Chapter III — Ascension
- Chapter IV — St. Helena
- Chapter V — Galapagos Archipelago
- Chapter VI — Trachyte and Basalt.—Distribution of Volcanic Isles
- Chapter VII — Australia; New Zealand; Cape of Good Hope
- Geological Observations on South America
- Chapter I — On the Elevation of the Eastern Coast of South America
- Chapter II — On the Elevation of the Western Coast of South America
- Chapter III — On the Plains and Valleys of Chile:—Saliferous Superficial Deposits
- Chapter IV — On the Formations of the Pampas
- Chapter V — On the Older Tertiary Formations of Patagonia and Chile
- Chapter VI — Plutonic and Metamorphic Rocks:—Cleavage and Foliation
- Chapter VII — Central Chile:—Structure of the Cordillera
- Chapter VIII — Northern Chile.—Conclusion
- Index to Coral-Reefs
- Index to Volcanic Islands
- Index to South American Geology
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1809–1882 · Victorian
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was born in Shrewsbury, studied medicine at Edinburgh and for the Church at Cambridge, and sailed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836. The theory of natural selection took shape in his notebooks from 1837; he published it in On the Origin of Species in 1859, after Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the same idea, and developed it in The Descent of Man (1871) and later works. He lived and worked at Down House in Kent for forty years.
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