Detail from a large folding hand coloured copperplate engraving in William Buckland's contribution to the Bridgewater Treatises \ Geology and Mineralo

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Detail from a large folding hand coloured copperplate engraving in William Buckland's contribution to the Bridgewater Treatises \ Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology\". Pickering (1836). In this idealised cross section the corresponding animals and plants are shown above the geological strata that they are found in."

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Keywords: 19th, artwork, bridgewater, buckland, century, fossil, geology, illustration, layers, palaeontology, paleontology, reconstruction, strata, stratigraphy, treatise, william