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    CHAMBERS'S ELEMENTARY SCIENCE MANUALS.




    GEOLOGY


    BY


    JAMES GEIKIE, LL.D., F.R.S.

    OF H.M. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; AUTHOR OF
    'THE GREAT ICE AGE.'


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    W. & R. CHAMBERS
    LONDON AND EDINBURGH
    1883




    Edinburgh:
    Printed by W. and R. Chambers.




PREFACE.


The vital importance of diffusing some knowledge of the leading
principles of Science among all classes of society, is becoming daily
more widely and deeply felt; and to meet and promote this important
movement, W. & R. CHAMBERS have resolved on issuing the present Series