Prestwich, Joseph, 1812-1896
Prestwich, Joseph
Joseph Prestwich British geologist and businessman
Joseph Prestwich British geologist and businessman (1812-1896)
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Works
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1. On a Fossiliferous Drift near Salisbury | |
Additional observations on the raised beach of Sangatte with reference to the date of the English Channel, and the presence of Loess in the Cliff section | |
Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London : prefaced by the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal : and proceeds of the donation fund for the same year | |
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ... 1875: | |
Collected Papers on Some Controverted Questions of Geology | |
Considerations on the date, duration and condition of the glacial period, with reference to the antiquity of Man | |
A geological inquiry respecting the water-bearing strata of the country around London, with reference especially to the water-supply of the metropolis; and including some remarks on springs | |
Geology, chemical, physical and stratigraphical | |
The ground beneath us, its geological phases and changes : being three lectures on the geology of Clapham and the neighbourhood of London generally | |
[Joseph Prestwich. Mémoires. Recueil factice contenant 13 pièces] : fonds Daubrée. | |
Life and letters of sir Joseph Prestwich | |
Note et observations théoriques sur la plage soulevée de Sangatte | |
Notes on the phenomena of the quaternary period in the Isle of Portland and around Weymouth | |
On a peculiar bed of angular drift on the lower chalk high plain between Upton and Chilton | |
On a raised beach in Rhos Sili Bay, Gower ; On the geological evidence of the temporary submergence of the southwest of Europe during the early human period | |
On certain phenomena belonging to the close of the last geological period and on their bearing upon the tradition of the flood | |
On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the valley of the Darent : with remarks on the palaeolithic implements of the district and on the origin of its chalk escarpment | |
On the age of some sands and iron-sandstones on the North Downs ; With a note on the fossils | |
On the agency of water in volcanic eruptions : with some observations on the thickness of the Earth's crust from a geological point of view : and on the primary cause of volcanic action | |
On the Boring through the chalk at Kentish Town, London | |
On the correlation of the Eocene tertiaries of England, France and Belgium. | |
On the drift at Sangatte Cliff, near Calais | |
On the Equivalents in England of the "Sables de Bracheux", and on the southern limits of the Thanet Sands | |
On the evidences of a submergence of western Europe and of the mediterranean coasts at the close of the glacial or so-called post-glacial period, and immediately preceding the neolithic or recent period | |
On the geological conditions affecting the water supply to houses and towns, with special reference to the modes of supplying Oxford: being a lecture given on October 22, 1875, with additional notes | |
On the geology of Coalbrook Dale : [read February 5, 1834, April 13 and 27, 1836] | |
On the mineral water discovered in sinking the artesian well at St. Clement's, Oxford, : and on certain geological inferences suggested by the character of the water | |
On the occurence of palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham, Kent, their distribution and probable age | |
On the occurrence of flint-implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne | |
On the occurrence of the Cyrena Fluminalis together with marine shells of recent species in beds of sand and gravel over beds of boulder-clay near hull, with an account of some borings and well-sections in the same district | |
On the origin of the Chesil bank, and on the relation of the existing beaches to past geological changes independent of the present coast action. With an abstract of the discussion upon the paper. | |
On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber : and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period | |
On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the chalk plateau of Kent : with reference to the question of their glacial or pre-glacial age | |
On the probable existence of coal measures in the South-East of England : [plate LXXXV] | |
On the relation of the Westleton beds or pebbly sands of Suffolk, to those of Norfolk, and on their extension inland : with some observations on the period of the final elevation and denudation of the weald and of the Thames valley. | |
On the section at Moulin Quignon, Abbeville, and on the peculair character of some of the flint implements recently discovered there. | |
On the section of Messrs. Meux and co's artesian well in the Tottenham-court road with notices of the well at Crossness and of another at Shoreham, Kent ; and on the probable range of the lower greensand and palaezoic rocks under London | |
On the structure of the neighbourhood of Gamrie, Bannfshire, particularly on the deposit containing Ichthyolites | |
On the structure of the strata between the London clay and the chalk in the London and Hampshire tertiary systems | |
On underground temperatures : with observations on the conductivity of rocks; on the thermal effects of saturation and imbibition; and on a special source of heat in mountain ranges | |
The past and future of geology. | |
A possible cause for the origin of the tradition of the flood | |
The raised beaches and "head" or rubble-drift of the south of England : their relation to the valley drifts and to the glacial period : and on a late post-glacial submergence | |
Rapport sur l’exploration de Brixham Cave, conduite par un comité de la société géologique, et sous la supervision de Wm. Pengelly... avec les descriptions des restes d’animaux de George Busk ... et des outils en silex de John Evans | |
Regional metamorphism | |
Report on the exploration of Brixham cave, conducted by a comittee of the Geological Society,... | |
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society | |
The solent river ; Drift deposits in Britain | |
Some observations on the causes of volcanic action ; On the strata between the Chillesford beds and the lower boulder clay "the Mundesley and Westleton beds ; on the extension into Essex, Middlesex and other inland counties of the Mundesley and Westleton beds in relation to the age of certain hillgravels and some of the valleys of the south of England | |
Sur la présence d’outils en silex, associés aux restes d’animaux d’espèces éteintes dans les lits d’une période géologique tardive, en France à Amiens et Abbeville, et en Angleterre à Hoxne | |
Sur la structure des couches du crag de Norfolk et de Suffolk avec quelques observations sur leurs restes organiques | |
Les tables des températures de la mer à différentes profondeurs sous la surface, réduites et rassemblées à partir des diverses observations faites entre les années 1749 et 1868, ont été discutées. Avec carte et sections | |
Tables of temperatures of the sea at various depths below the surface : taken between 1749-1868 | |
Theoretical considerations on the conditions under which the (drift) deposits containing the remains of extinct mammalia and flint implements were accumulated, and their geological age | |
Vie et travaux de Édouard Lartet : notices et discours publiés à l'occasion de sa mort |