A Popular And Practical Exposition Of The Minerals And Geology Of Canada (1864) - Couverture rigide

Chapman, Edward John

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ISBN 10 : 1436937574 ISBN 13 : 9781436937573

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

""A Popular and Practical Exposition of the Minerals and Geology of Canada"" is a comprehensive book written by Edward John Chapman in 1864. The book provides a detailed account of the geology and mineral resources of Canada, including its geological formations, mineral deposits, and mining industry. The author covers the physical geography of Canada, the different types of rocks and minerals found in the country, and their economic significance. The book also includes a section on the history of Canadian mining, as well as descriptions of the different mining methods used in the country at the time. The language used in the book is accessible and easy to understand, making it a popular resource for students, geologists, and anyone with an interest in the natural resources of Canada. Overall, ""A Popular and Practical Exposition of the Minerals and Geology of Canada"" is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the geological and mineralogical wealth of this North American nation.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The subject matter of this yolume was originallj published in the form of a series of papers, in the pages of the Canadian Journal of Science nnd A rt. In its present shape, the work is intended to fulfil two purposes: first, to supply the general reader with a popular, and, at the same time, a practical, or really useful, handbook of our minerals, fossils, and geology; and secondly, to serve as an explanatory introduction to the enlarged Eeport on the G-eology of Canada, and other publications, issued by the G-eological Survey. The term popular, in its application to works of this kind, is so frequently abused, that I ihay perhaps be allowed to explain, at the outset, the sense in which it is employed in the present volume. This will be done most readily, by an explanation of the scope and general character of the work. With this view, it may be observed that the subject of the present Essay is arranged under five divisions or parts. The two first, of these, relate to the minerals of Canada; the other three, to our fossils and rock groups. jN ow, if it were designed to draw up a description of Canadian minerals for the perusal of the mineralogist, these substances might be arranged in a chemical or chemico-physical order, and an analysis of their crystallographic peculiarities, chemical relations, and other allied points of inquiry, at once entered upon; but as this work is intended to meet the wants of the general reader, another method a popular or explanatory treatment is rendered necessary. The object here, moreover, is not only to describe the characters, uses, localities, c., of these minerals, in general terms; but to enable the reader, whilst acquiring this information, to recognise these bodies, or, in other words, to make out their names, whenever subsequently met with; and thus to convey to him, as far as it goes, a really practical knowledge of
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1436937574
• ISBN 13: 9781436937573
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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