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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
100	1		_aBuch, Leopold von, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPhysicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln / _cLeopold von Buch.
264		1	_aPlace of publication not identified : _bpublisher not identified, _c1825.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press
300			_a1 online resource (426 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge library collection. Earth Science
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aThe German geologist Leopold von Buch (1774-1853) was a fellow-student of Alexander von Humboldt, with whom he later did fieldwork that led to important advances in the understanding of the Jurassic system and the origins of basalt. In 1815 Buch and the Norwegian botanist Christian Smith spent several months in the Canary Isles, and the resulting book, which appeared in 1825, is one of Buch's most important publications. It contains three papers Buch had previously published in journals, on flora (1816), the 1730 eruption on Lanzarote (1818) and temperature (1820), with additional chapters on population, land area and economics, the measurement of altitude, mineralogy, and detailed comparative data on volcanoes around the world. The substantial introduction includes a journal that records Buch's enthusiasm for the islands' scenery, natural history and people, and an obituary of Smith, who died in 1816 on a research trip to the Congo.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108072526
830		0	_aCambridge library collection. _pEarth Science.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973277
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