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The living origin of rocks and minerals /

An increasing number of enthusiasts are attracted by the rich variety of rocks and minerals around us, and new ways of looking at them. In this book, Walther Cloos views the Earth as a living organism, with different kingdoms of nature, mineral, plant and animal, as stages left behind as the earth d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cloos, Walther (Author)
Other Authors: Castelliz, K. (Katherine) (Translator), Saunders-Davies, B. (Barbara) (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: Edinburgh : Floris Books, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Geology > Philosophy.
Rocks > Religious aspects.
Anthroposophy > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • An outline of the world of rocks
  • Previous stages of the living earth
  • The character of the world of the mineral-plants
  • The character of the world-plant-animal
  • The plant-nature and schists
  • The animal-nature and limestone
  • The human being and salt
  • The mystery of oil
  • Sedimentary rocks
  • Volcanism and the birth of terrestrial fire
  • Natural radioactivity and the process of germination
  • Meteoritic phenomena
  • The mineral composition of rocks
  • Metals in the life of the earth
  • Embryonic development and rock formation
  • Time in the development of the earth
  • The earth as seed of a new world
  • Table of geological formations
  • Bibliography
  • Index.