Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/11/5/2
• Dates of Creation:16 March 1880
• Name of Creator:
  Dutton, Capt Clarence Edward, 1841?1912 (American geologist, United States Geological Survey)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 letter

• Scope and Content

  Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton thanking him for a copy of a paper on the carboniferous volcanic rocks of Scotland. [ On the Carboniferous Volcanic Rocks of the Basin of the Firth of Forth : Their Structure in the Field and Under the Microscope, ( 1879) ]. He goes on to discuss the contents, and its implication for his own research, in detail.

• Archivist's Note

  None

  Sarah Higgins 02 February 2001

• Subjects

  Geology, Stratigraphic Carboniferous

  Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.

• Personal Names

  Dutton, Capt Clarence Edward, 1841?1912 (American geologist, United States Geological Survey)

  Geikie, Archibald, Sir (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh)

• Geographical Names

  Scotland

  Forth, Firth of, Scotland