Abstracts of Papers Submitted for the Meeting in Washington, D. C. December 26–31, 1966<subtitle>Section E, AAAS, The Geological Society of America, The Association of American Geographers, The National Speleological Society, The Committee on Arid Lands, AAAS</subtitle>

Charles Kingsley's lifelong interest in geology is well documented – from the gentleman geologists of his early novels and his membership of the Geological Society, to his introduction to earth science for children, Madam How and Lady Why (1870) – but the influence of geological ideas in The Water-Babies (1863) has been largely overlooked. Instead, academics have broadly categorised the novel as an ‘evolutionary parable’, emphasising Darwinian influences to the exclusion of contemporary geology. I propose that there is a distinct geological subtext underpinning The Water-Babies. Acknowledging both its scientific and religious contexts, I argue that Kingsley integrates elements of his geological studies into clear stratigraphic forms in the novel; that these ideas recur in the novel's surface geography and are informed by his reading of contemporary geologists; and that The Water-Babies is part of a longstanding generic tradition of Christian geological katabasis that can be traced back to Dante's Divine Comedy (1555).

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Comparative studies of the agrophytocenoses with various structure in the arid lands of the Northern Caspian region

Vestnik of the Mari State University Chapter “Agriculture Economics” ◽

10.30914/2411-9687-2018-4-2-9-16 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 9-16

Author(s):

G. K. Bulakhtina ◽

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A. V. Kudryashov ◽

N. I. Kudryashova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Comparative Studies ◽

Arid Lands ◽

Caspian Region

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The Arid Lands of China Should Not Be Taken As the New Grain Output Fields

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10.3724/sp.j.1148.2010.00153 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 153-159

Author(s):

Ru-ji HU ◽

Feng-qing JIANG ◽

Ya-jun WANG

Keyword(s):

Arid Lands

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Geological investigations of Piedmont and Triassic Rocks, Central North Carolina and Virginia (with a field trip guide on the bedrock geology of south central Virginia). Carolina Geological Society field trip guidebook

10.2172/5071810 ◽

1980 ◽

Author(s):

V. Jr. Price ◽

P. A. Thayer ◽

W. A. Ranson

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Field Trip ◽

Geological Society ◽

South Central ◽

Bedrock Geology

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Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

10.1007/978-3-642-60977-0 ◽

1996 ◽

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Keyword(s):

Biotic Interactions ◽

Arid Lands

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Abstracts of Papers Submitted for the Meeting in Washington, D. C. December 26–31, 1966Section E, AAAS, The Geological Society of America, The Association of American Geographers, The National Speleological Society, The Committee on Arid Lands, AAAS

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Geological Katabasis : Geology and the Christian Underworld in Kingsley's The Water-Babies

Comparative studies of the agrophytocenoses with various structure in the arid lands of the Northern Caspian region

The Arid Lands of China Should Not Be Taken As the New Grain Output Fields

Geological investigations of Piedmont and Triassic Rocks, Central North Carolina and Virginia (with a field trip guide on the bedrock geology of south central Virginia). Carolina Geological Society field trip guidebook

Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

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