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- Title
LOUIS AGASSIZ AND THE FOSSIL REEFS OF IOWA.
- Authors
MONSON, CHARLES C.
- Abstract
The article discusses the relation of naturalist Luis Agassiz to popular enthusiasm for the excavation of Devonian coral reef fossils of the Cedar Valley Group in Johnson County, Iowa. Topics include the presence of coral in the limestone known as Iowa City marble or Bird's Eye Marble, an 1864 lecture by Agassiz in Iowa City, Iowa, and the relation of this event to the naming of Coralville, Iowa. It is said that Agassiz was a prominent opponent of naturalist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
- Subjects
CORALVILLE (Iowa); JOHNSON County (Iowa); IOWA; AGASSIZ, Louis, 1807-1873; FOSSIL corals; IOWA state history; DEVONIAN paleontology; SCIENCE &; society; BIOLOGICAL evolution -- History
- Publication
Earth Sciences History, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
0736-623X
- Publication type
Article