From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 457
Summary:
Notes recent confirmation of CD’s views on subsidence in [island of] St Jago.
Describes Carboniferous strata discovered on Island of Mull by J. W. Judd. Contained evidence of Miocene sinking of volcanoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project