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Archibald Geikie on the Last Elevation of Scotland (2009)

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Geology Earth sciences 19th century Scotland Lyell, Charles Geikie, Archibald Home, David Milne

Archibald Geikie announced in 1861 that Scotland had been elevated twenty-five feet since Roman times. In stratified sediments at Leith, he identified pottery fragments as Roman. Other observers promptly noted that the beds had not been deposited under water but were made ground, and that the pottery was recent. Geikie still insisted on the elevation of Scotland since Roman times, based on the terminations of the Antonine Wall. In 1871, David Milne Home showed that if in Roman times Scotland had been twenty-five feet lower than at present, Roman roads, fords, and buildings would have been submerged. In 1873, Milne Home showed further that the eastern end of the Antonine Wall would have been under water. In 1863, in Antiquity of Man, Sir Charles Lyell accepted Geikie's claims, but in the fourth edition of Antiquity in 1873 he presented Milne Home's evidence against them. Geikie never forgave Lyell for exposing his error and subsequently did his utmost to belittle him.

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Authors & Contributors
Roy W. McIntyre
Taylor, Michael A.
Sponsel, Alistair William
Rudwick, Martin J.S.
Orr, Mary
Nie, Fu-ing
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Victorian Literature and Culture
Perspectives on Science
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
Publishers
NMS Enterprises
Edifir Edizioni
Cromarty Arts Trust & the Elphinstone Institute of the University of Aberdeen
Ashgate Publishing
Princeton University
Concepts
Geology
Earth sciences
Biographies
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and religion
Science and literature
People
Lyell, Charles
Smith, William
Miller, Hugh
Darwin, Charles Robert
Buckland, William
Necker de Saussure, Louis-Albert
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
20th century
Places
Scotland
Great Britain
Atlantic Ocean
Catalonia (Spain)
Italy
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
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