Hugh Miller: Fossils, landscape and literary geology

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-98

  Knell, Simon J ^a   Taylor, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Devonian; Fossil collecting; History of geology; History of vertebrate paleontology; Hugh Miller; Jurassic; Literary geology; Museums; Old Red sandstone

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; LAMARCKIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645134294     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(06)80031-3     Document Type: Article

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