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Oxford
University libraries have a wealth of 17th to 19th century
geological literature that is central to the development
of the subject area, in particular as it applies to the
'English School' of Geology. Some of this literature also
relates to specimens held in the Geological Collections
of the University Museum of Natural History, records and
images of which are available on-line. The digitization
of these key books and maps and their availability on
the web through the Oxford Digital Library provides a
very rich, immediate resource of rare items for scholars
and researchers in the history of science, geology, palaeontology,
petrology, and mineralogy. Many of these items are beautifully
illustrated, depicting for example fossils, rock sequences
and landscapes, and they will also therefore have a much
wider appeal to anyone from VIth form level to the layman
with an interest in the earth sciences or natural history.
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