| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 339 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), music, 1 portrait |
| Contents |
Part 1. Economy in Motion. Travellers' Tales 1: Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe in Pre-Industrial Britain -- Beginning of Coallery: George Sinclair, 'Scoto-Lothiani' -- New Reductions: Iron and 'Charking Coles' -- Steam Engine Works: Newcomen to Watt and Boulton -- Still Waters Run Shallow: Canal Mania -- Travellers' Tales 2: Louis Simond Under Tyneside, 1811 -- Part 2. Redress of Time: Carboniferous Worlds Reconstructed. Devonian Prequel: Scintillas, then Splashes of Green -- Carboniferous Tectonic Geography and Climate -- Carboniferous Equatorial Swamp Forests -- Carbon Accumulations and Mineral Additions -- Tectonic Inversion: Preservation of Coal Basins -- Part 3. Legacies: Carbon Cycling, Chimneys and Creativity. Atmospheres, Global Carbon Cycling and Glaciations -- Britain: First 'Chimney of the World' -- Chimneys of the Modern World: von Richthofen's 'Planetary Catastrophe' -- Industrial Sublime and Other Creative Legacies -- Part 4. Landscapes of the Industrial Revolution. South Wales -- England's West Country: Somerset and Gloucestershire -- North Wales -- English South Midlands -- East of the South Pennines (Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire) -- West of the South Pennines (Lancashire/North Staffordshire) -- West and South Cumberland -- Northumberland and Durham -- Scottish Midlands |
| Summary |
An illustrated explanation of the geological background to the first Industrial Revolution that originated in eighteenth-century Britain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2022) |
| Subject |
Geology -- History.
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Geology
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781780466545 |
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1780466544 |
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9781780466521 |
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1780466528 |
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9781780466538 |
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1780466536 |
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