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      Rocks

      • UF Rock mechanics
      • UF Rock properties
      • UF Stones (rocks)
      • UF Mécanique des roches
      • UF Pierre (roche)
      • UF Propriété des roches
      • UF Mecánica de las rocas
      • UF Piedra
      • UF Propiedades de las rocas

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      GB 0402 SBE · 1930-1980

      Papers of Prof Stanley Henry Beaver, 1930-1980, including papers on European railways; draft chapters for The British Isles; notes for Admiralty Handbooks on the Netherlands East Indies; papers on housing and planning and papers on British sand and gravel resources.

      Beaver , Stanley Henry , 1907-1984 , geographer
      GB 378 LDGSL/26 · File · [1851-1874]

      Papers of Sir George Duncan Gibb, comprising:

      Manuscript volume entitled 'Geological Rambles around Montreal and its Vicinity. With an account of the history, physical geography and geology of the island. Illustrated with a coloured geological map and numerous wood engravings, by Sir George Duncan Gibb, Bart, MA, MD, LLD, FGS, London 1868'. According to the letter of transmissal (pasted into the front of the volume) and the preface, Gibb's intention was for the work to be published but it was never financially viable to do so. The volume is set out as if it were a published work, with chapters and 'woodcut' illustrations (mostly of fossils) which are in fact original ink drawings by Gibb. The descriptions contained in the volume were compiled between 1851-1853 (although at least one of the illustrations is dated 1855), before the Victoria Bridge and the Grand Trunk Railway were constructed, and prior to the area being covered by the Geological Survey of Canada.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS:
      History of Montreal
      Physical Geography of Montreal
      Geology of Montreal

      Chapter 1 - To Mount Royal to examine the Trap of which is is composed

      Chapter 2 - To Côte-des-Neiges and McGill College to examine the Leda clay and Trap Dykes

      Chapter 3 - To Pampinean Road, to examine a broad band of intercalated trap and Ice grooves

      Chapter 4 - To Cadiuex Village to see Tertiary deposits in which were found bones of whales and seals

      Chapter 5 - To the Mile End quarries to see the limestones at the base of the Trenton formation

      Chapter 6 - To the Second Mile End quarries and La Chapelles Bridge, to examine the Chazy limestone

      Chapter 7 - To the Tanneries of St Henri and Lac St Pierre to see the Alluvial deposits

      Chapter 8 - To Côte St Michel, to explain Gibb's Cavern

      Chapter 9 - To Mount Royal to examine a Fissure in the Limestone Rock

      Chapter 10 - To Bouchette's Cavern, Kildare in the Laurentian limestones

      Chapter 11 - To St Anne's to examine the Potsdam sandstone

      Chapter 12 - To Beauharnois to examine the various beds of Foot-tracks

      Chapter 13 - To Pointe Cavagnol, Vaudreiul, to examine the locality of the broadest Protichnites or Foot-tracks

      Chapter 14 - To Lachute, Riviere du Nord, to examine the Track bed and its relations

      Chapter 15 - To Mont Calvaire, Lake of Two Mountains to examine the gneiss of which it is composed; and also sand hills

      Chapter 16 - To the Trap Mountain of Rigaud on the Ottawa River, with a multitude of small rounded boulders of trap on its summit

      Chapter 17 - To Montarville, to see the Boucherville Mountain and its two little crater lakes

      Chapter 18 - To Mount Rouville, otherwise called Chambly or Beloeil Mountain, and its crater lake

      Chapter 19 - To Rougemont, composed of Dolerite Trap

      Chapter 20 - To Yamaska Mountain, to see micaceous trachyte and diorite of which it is composed

      Chapter 21 - To Monnoir to visit Mount Johnson, formed of feldspathic diorite

      Chapter 22 - To Lachine and Caughnawaga [Kahnawake], to see multitudes of Boulders, Trap dykes, and limestones of the Chazy formation

      Chapter 23 - To Pointe Claire to examine the quarries of limestone and marble

      Chapter 24 - To Isle Bizard and White Horse Rapids to see two outliers of Dolomite conglomerate of the Upper Silurian Division

      Chapter 25 - To the Village and Seigniory of Terrebonne to examine the Upper Laurentian Rocks

      Chapter 26 - To St Helen's Island to examine the Dolomitic Conglomerate and its relations

      Chapter 27 - To the Fort and Basin of Chambly on the River Richelieu

      Chapter 28 - To the Pinnacle Mountain of St Armand formed of the Quebec group of rocks

      Chapter 29 - To Varennes to see the Mineral Springs arising from the Utica Shales

      Chapter 30 - To Grenville on the Ottawa River, to examine the serpentine and other Eozoic rocks

      Chapter 31 - To Chatham on the Ottawa to see the beds of syenite and enromous accumulation of boulders

      Chapter 32 - To Perth, to examine the Potsdam beds, containing Climactichnites associated with Protichnites

      GIBB , Sir , George Duncan , 1821-1876 , laryngologist and geologist
      GB 0102 PP MS 66 · Created c1906-1948

      Papers of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, c1906-1948, comprising linguistic papers relating to his work on Burushaski, Khowar, Shina, Bakhtiari, Kermani Persian, and Gabri; photographs and 22 reels of cinefilm of a field trip to the Hunza Valley (north west Pakistan), 1934-1935; other photographs and glass plate negatives, including Persia, among them images of people, buildings and places; Hunza rock and seed samples.

      Lorimer , David Lockhart Robertson , 1876-1962 , Lieutenant-Colonel , civil servant and linguist
      GB 0098 KMIN · Created 1908-1992 (ongoing)

      Records of the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering of Imperial College, 1908-1992, including departmental history from 1851-1964; course leaflets, 1923-[1989]; newsletters, 1990-1991; reports and reviews, 1938, 1987-1992; Professorial correspondence, 1908-1935; papers of the Merricks Committee, 1930-1932; Rectors' correspondence, 1955-1981; correspondence relating to the headship of the department, 1967-1979; change of name, 1965-1975 (KMIN); papers relating to the new course of Environmental and Earth Resources Engineering, 1992 (KMIN/E);
      papers relating to Tywarnhale mine, Cornwall, 1908-1971, including correspondence concerning its purchase, 1908-1912; general administration, 1909-1939; with the Duchy of Cornwall, 1910-1922, 1950-1951; purchase of land, 1946-1965 (KMIN/M);
      papers relating to the Petroleum Engineering Section, 1973-1978, including working party papers on proposed course; Chair of Petroleum Engineering, 1974-1975; course leaflets, 1975-1978 (KMIN/P);
      papers relating to the Rock Mechanics Section, comprising MSc course details, [1968]; research reports, 1967, 1969, 1975 (KMIN/R);
      report on the Royal School of Mines examination, 1924 (KMIN/S);
      papers relating to the Mineral Technology Section, comprising brochures, establishment of the section, 1949-1950 (KMIN/T).

      Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
      GB 0117 MS 246 · 1657-1673

      Letters from Sir Robert Moray to his friend Alexander Bruce, Earl of Kincardine, also known as 'The Kincardine Papers'. Bruce was sick of the ague in Bremen for part of this time, and the letters were written to alleviate the tedium of of Bruce's illness, hence ranging over topics which might not otherwise have been the subjects of correspondence. They include accounts of chemical experiments in his laboratory, his interest in magnetism, medicine in all its aspects, horticulture, fuel, whale fishing, its risks and profits, coal mining, water wheels and tide mills, stone quarrying and the various qualities of different stones, the pumping works needed for undersea coal mines at Bruce's home at Culross in Fifeshire, even to the trees whose wood was best for pipelines, and the diameter of the bore best suited to the purpose. Familiarity is shown with mathematical and surveying instruments, with music, and all sorts of mechanical devices and especially clocks and watches, more particularly the taking out of a patent in respect of a clock for use at sea for finding longitude. Bruce is advised on the choice of books over a wide range of subjects. Moray includes anecdotes to amuse his ailing correspondent; he describes his quiet life and is enthusiastic about many of his chemical experiments. Notable at the end of the letters Moray added what he described as his Masonic signature - a pentagram which also occurs in his crest.

      Moray , Sir , Robert , 1608-1673 , Knight , natural philosopher