@article{801941,
      note = {"First published in Great Britain 2017"--Title page  verso.},
      author = {Maddox, Brenda,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/801941},
      title = {Reading the rocks : how Victorian geologists discovered  the secret of life /},
      abstract = {This is a group biography of the first geologists, the  people who were first to excavate from the layers of the  world its buried history. These first geologists were made  up primarily of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to  support their interests, yet also included clergymen,  academics and women. The new science of geology was pursued  by this assorted band because it opened a window on Earth's  ancient past. They showed courage in facing the conflict  between geology and Genesis as the rocks and fossils showed  that the Earth was immeasurably old, rather than springing  from a creation made in the six days that the Bible  claimed. This book tells the individual stories of this  group, their hope and fears, triumphs and disappointments,  the theological, philosophical and scientific debates their  findings provoked, and the way that as a group, they were  to change our understanding of the world.},
      recid = {801941},
      pages = {xii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :},
}