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V.—On the Classification of Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. W. Hutton
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No one, I think, will deny that geology is far behind all the other sciences in the classification of those substances which form its special study, viz., rocks. No two authors agree on the subject, and no one seems to have attempted to form a scientific classification, based on a natural system.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 53 , November 1868 , pp. 503 - 506
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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