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The Jurassic Coast in the United Kingdom is a World Heritage Site and one of the most significant geological and geomorphological locations on earth. Its geology, which dates from the Triassic through the Cretaceous Ages, features a remarkable fossil record, including the remains of dinosaurs. The Jurassic Coast also boasts extraordinary landforms, such as huge landslips, raised beaches, dry valleys, shingle barriers, and coastal lagoons. Many leading geologists, geomorphologists, and paleontologists have worked in the area, making the Jurassic Coast a nexus for the study of earth science.
Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast describes the importance of the site and examines the lives and achievements of over forty individuals who studied it. Progressing chronologically, the book tells the stories of early researchers, fossil collectors, geological mappers, stratigraphers, and paleontologists from the seventeenth century to today. These include such groundbreaking figures as Robert Hooke, Mary Anning, William Buckland, William Conybeare, Henry De La Beche, W.J. Arkell, and Joseph Prestwich.
Written to appeal to both specialists and general readers, Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast will be of interest to historians of science, geologists and geomorphologists, and students and visitors to the area.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The earliest investigators
William Hobbs
Robert Hooke
John Woodward
James Parkinson
Chapter 3. The fossil collectors
Mary Anning
Elizabeth Philpot
Richard Owen
Samuel Beckles
Peter Brodie
Thomas Hawkins
Robert Damon
Chapter 4. Establishment of geology at the universities and the Golden Age
William Buckland
Mary Buckland
William Conybeare
Henry De la Beche
Chapter 5. The geological map
Thomas Webster
Edward Forbes
Henry William Bristow
Alfred Jukes-Browne
Clement Reid
Horace Woodward
William Ussher
Aubrey Strahan
William Joscelyn Arkell
Chapter 6. Gifted stratigraphers and palaeontologists
William Henry Fitton
Joseph Prestwich
Osmond Fisher
Edward Day
Sydney Savory Buckman
William Dickson Lang
Leonard Spath
Muriel Arber
Michael House
Chapter 7. Some other stars
Eleanor Coade
Peter Orlando Hutchinson
John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell
Vaughan Cornish
John Coode
John Green
Ernest Burton
Mary Stopes
Alan Carr
Denys Brunsden - an appreciation
Conclusion
Bibliography and references
Glossary
Index
