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Reliquiæ diluvianæ : or Observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena : attesting the action of an universal deluge
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- Creator
- by the Rev. William Buckland
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- London : John Murray, 1824
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- vii, 1 unnumbered page, 303 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 27 leaves of plates (some folded, some color) : illustrations, maps (some color, some folded) ; 28 cm
- OCLC
- ocm04078605
- "Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars"--t.p. verso.
- Includes errata.
- Includes index.
- Also available online.
- Cave at Kirkdale -- Chronological inferences from it -- Caves at Kirby Moorside -- Open fissure in Duncomb Park -- Cave at Hutton, in the Mendip Hills -- Cave on Derdham Down, near Clifton -- Cave at Balleye, near Wirksworth -- Dream cave, near Wirksworth -- Three sets of caves near Plymouth -- Cave at Crawley Rocks, near Swansea -- Cave at Paviland, near Swansea -- Caves in Germany -- Osseous breccia of Gibraltar, Nice, Dalmatia, &c. -- Human remains in caves -- Evidences of an inundation afforded by phenomena on the earth's surface --Opinions of Cuvier -- On the excavation of valleys by diluvial denudation -- Valleys of denudation, and diluvial pebbles, in Dorset, Devon, Wilts, and Berks -- Valleys of denudation, and beds of diluvial gravel, in Warwickshire, Oxon, and Middlesex