Author: Thomas Steery Hunt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9781330333099

Excerpt from Chemical and Geological Essays In choosing from a large number the following papers for republication, it may be well to state the considerations which have guided the author in his selection. His researches and his conclusions as the chemistry of the air, the waters, and the earth in past and present times, the origin of limestones, dolomites, and gypsums, of mineral waters, petroleum, and metalliferous deposits, the generation of silicated minerals, the theory of mechanical and chemical sediments, and the origin of crystalline rocks and vein-stones, including erupted rocks and volcanic products, cover nearly all the more important points in chemical geology. They have, moreover, been by him connected with the hypothesis of a cooking globe, and with certain views of geological dynamics, making together a complete scheme of chemical and physical geology, the outlines of which will be found embodied in essays I. - XIII. of the present collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.