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JAMES GEIKIE (1839- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 553 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:GEIKIE (1839- )  , Scottish geologist, younger See also:brother of See also:Sir See also:Archibald See also:Geikie, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 23rd of See also:August 1839 . He was educated at the high school and university of Edinburgh . He served on the See also:Geological Survey from 1861 until 1882, when he succeeded his brother as See also:Murchison See also:professor of See also:geology and See also:mineralogy at the university of Edinburgh . He took as his See also:special subject of investigation the origin of See also:surface-features, and the See also:part played in their formation by glacial See also:action . His views are embodied in his See also:chief See also:work, The See also:Great See also:Ice See also:Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of See also:Man (1874; 3rd ed., 1894) . He was elected F.R.S. in x875 . See also:James Geikie became the See also:leader of the school that upholds the all-important action of See also:land-ice, as against those geologists who assign chief importance to the work of See also:pack-ice and icebergs . Continuing this See also:line of investigation in his Prehistoric See also:Europe (1881) , he maintained the See also:hypothesis of five inter-Glacial periods in Great See also:Britain, and argued that the See also:palaeolithic deposits of the See also:Pleistocene See also:period were not See also:post- but inter- or pre-Glacial . His Fragments of See also:Earth See also:Lore: Sketches and Addresses, Geological and See also:Geographical (1893) and Earth See also:Sculpture (1898) are mainly concerned with the same subject . His Outlines of Geology (1886), a See also:standard See also:text-See also:book of its subject, reached its third edition in 1896; and in 19o5 he published an important See also:manual on Structural and See also:Field Geology . In 1887 he displayed another See also:side of his activity in a See also:volume of Songs and Lyrics by H . See also:Heine and other See also:German Poets, done into See also:English See also:Verse .

From 1888 he was honorary editor of 'the Scottish Geographical See also:

Magazine .

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