Cambridge Storybooks 1 Dirty Dog

The issue arose when the Reverend Adam Sedgwick of Cambridge claimed for the Cambrian period a layer of rock that Roderick Murchison believed belonged rightly to the Silurian. The dispute raged for years and grew extremely heated. БЂњDe la Beche is a dirty dog,БЂ«Murchison wrote to a friend in a typical outburst. Some sense of the strength of feeling can be gained by glancing through the chapter titles of Martin J. S. RudwickБЂ™s excellent and somber account of the issue, The Great Devonian Controversy. These begin innocuously enough with headings such as БЂњArenas of Gentlemanly DebateБЂ«and БЂњUnraveling the Greywacke,БЂ«but then proceed on to БЂњThe Greywacke Defended and Attacked,БЂ«БЂњReproofs and Recriminations,БЂ«БЂњThe Spread of Ugly Rumors,БЂ«БЂњWeaver Recants His Heresy,БЂ«БЂњPutting a Provincial in His Place,БЂ«and (in case there was any doubt that this was war) БЂњMurchison Opens the Rhineland Campaign.БЂ«The fight was finally settled in 1879 with the simple expedient of coming up with a new period, the Ordovician, to be inserted between the two ...»