RECORD: Darwin, C. R. (1837-1839) Notebook A: A 111e-112e (excised pages). CUL-DAR42.45. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: First transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2009. Text prepared by Christine Chua. 1.2022. RN1

Darwin, C. R. Notebook A: Geology (1837-1839). CUL-DAR127.-


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J Hall Vol VI. p 173 (Ed. Transact) has seen clay stuff enough for potters to use in which great knife formed crystals of ice were formed (like my gypsum case) shows power of segregation & has heated angular fragments of rock, which returned thus angles sharp — yet with character completely altered, & a crystalline structure superinduced

Lyell on Sweden p. 5 & 7 richest shale from decomposed muscles.

Smith of Jordanhill has seen same thing

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Consider profoundly How came it. that Glen Roy district could have been elevated without fissure & unequal. — where were cracks? — ? How came there ever to be cracks

11th August. 1838

Near Woolwich there are plains & valleys just like Patagonia, & many shells in parts on surface, but I saw none embedded this point would be worth examining. to support. shells on surface of Patagonia, yet none in shingle beds.


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