Greywacke Davidson Nick
Greywacke Davidson Nick Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Nick Davidson follows in their footsteps and draws on…
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Greywacke Davidson Nick
Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier.
Nick Davidson follows in their footsteps and draws on maps, diaries, letters, field notes and contemporary accounts to bring the ideas and characters alive. It was their personal and intellectual rivalry, pursued on treks through Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Devon and parts of western Russia, that revealed the narrative structure of the Paleozoic Era, the 300-million-year period during which life on Earth became recognisably itself. But this is more than a history of geology.
As we travel through some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain, it's a celebration of the sheer visceral pleasure generations of geologists have found, and continue to find, in noticing the earth beneath our