Considerations on Volcanoes
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- In George Julius Poulett Scrope
His first work, Considerations on Volcanoes (1825), is regarded as the earliest systematic treatise on volcanology, since it was the first attempt to frame a satisfactory theory of volcanic action and to show the part volcanoes have played in the Earth’s history. He early appreciated the important part…
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