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

1894 ◽  
Vol 37 (941supp) ◽  
pp. 15043-15044
Author(s):  
E. O. Hovey
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Waterlines ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristobal Pinche ◽  
Loren Ruiz
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2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Rachel Fountain Eames

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).


2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-159
Author(s):  
Ru-ji HU ◽  
Feng-qing JIANG ◽  
Ya-jun WANG
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