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Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South

edited by James X. Corgan
contributions by George W. White, Ivan L. Zabilka, Michele L. Aldrich, Daniel D. Arden, Martha Coleman Bray, James X. Corgan, Markes E. Johnson, Alan E. Leviton, Anne Millbrooke and Richard C. Sheridan

University of Alabama Press, 1982
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8793-8 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5798-6 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-0076-0
Library of Congress Classification QE13.U6G46 1982
Dewey Decimal Classification 557.509

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States

Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between 1796 and the 1850s. Each essay includes fascinating biographic sketches of the author, a bibliography, and an index.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

James X. Corgan served as chairman of the Geology Department at Austin Peay State University and was the author of Vertebrate Fossils of Tennessee and Geology in Antebellum Tennessee and coauthor of Tennessee’s Prehistoric Vertebrates, Natural Bridges of Tennessee, and Radiometric Ages of Tennessee Rocks.

REVIEWS

“The nine historical essays in this little volume edited by James X. Corgan have done much to rectify this lacuna [in knowledge about early geologists in the United States] by mapping out the history of geological inquiry in the southeast, as well as defining areas of fruitful scholarship and terrae incognitae.”
—Florida Historical Quarterly

“[The Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South] will be a useful book for those specially interested in the history of the Antebellum South.”
—Geological Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Introduction

Andrew Ellicott's Geological Observations in the Mississippi Valley and Florida, 1796–1800

W. White, George

South Carolina State Geological Surveys of the Nineteenth Century

Millbrooke, Anne

Early American Geological Surveys and Gerard Troost's Field Assistants, 1831–1836

X. Corgan, James

Mineral Fertilizers in Southern Agriculture

C. Sheridan, Richard

William Barton Rogers and the Virginia Geological Survey, 1835–1842

L. Aldrich, Michele
E. Leviton, Alan

Southern Influences on the Career of Joseph Nicollet

Coleman Bray, Martha

Antebellum Geological Surveys in Kentucky and Their Contribution to the Shaler Survey of the 1870s

L. Zabilka, Ivan

Charles Lyell's Observations on Southeastern Geology

D. Arden, Daniel

The Second Geological Career of Ebenezer Emmons: Success and Failure in the Southern States, 1851–1860

E. Johnson, Markes

Bibliography

The Contributors

Index

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