Author: Gabriel Gohau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Gohau looks at the early theories of the formation of the world and then moves to philosophical debates over mountains, fossils, the Flood, volcanoes, and cycles of earth history that preoccupied the geologists and biologists of the late 18th and 19th century. He concludes with an account of 20th century geology's scientific revolution. Revised and translated from the French (Editions La Decouverte, 1987). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A History of Geology
Author: Gabriel Gohau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Gohau looks at the early theories of the formation of the world and then moves to philosophical debates over mountains, fossils, the Flood, volcanoes, and cycles of earth history that preoccupied the geologists and biologists of the late 18th and 19th century. He concludes with an account of 20th century geology's scientific revolution. Revised and translated from the French (Editions La Decouverte, 1987). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Gohau looks at the early theories of the formation of the world and then moves to philosophical debates over mountains, fossils, the Flood, volcanoes, and cycles of earth history that preoccupied the geologists and biologists of the late 18th and 19th century. He concludes with an account of 20th century geology's scientific revolution. Revised and translated from the French (Editions La Decouverte, 1987). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Geology at MIT 1865-1965: A History of the First Hundred Years of Geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Author: Robert Rakes Shrock
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262192118
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
This book completes Professor Shrock's full-scale history of MIT's Geology Department.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262192118
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
This book completes Professor Shrock's full-scale history of MIT's Geology Department.
Origin and Evolution of Earth
Author: Kent C. Condie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examples are the nature of Earth's oldest rocks, the origin of continents, extraterrestrial impact and mass extinctions of organisms, rates of organic evolution, and recent developments on the origin of humans.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Examples are the nature of Earth's oldest rocks, the origin of continents, extraterrestrial impact and mass extinctions of organisms, rates of organic evolution, and recent developments on the origin of humans.
Comparative Planetology, Geological Education, History of Geology
Author: Wang Hongzhen
Publisher: VSP
ISBN: 9789067642545
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: VSP
ISBN: 9789067642545
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Palaeontology and Historical Geology
Author: Jin Yu Gan
Publisher: VSP
ISBN: 9789067642576
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book is a collection of papers presented in the symposia, held in Beijing, on palaeontology and historical geology. The papers deal with different topics, providing information on Palaeobiogeography and Palaeoecology of Asian countries, their faunal content, and fossil preservation.
Publisher: VSP
ISBN: 9789067642576
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book is a collection of papers presented in the symposia, held in Beijing, on palaeontology and historical geology. The papers deal with different topics, providing information on Palaeobiogeography and Palaeoecology of Asian countries, their faunal content, and fossil preservation.
Geologists and the History of Geology: Bibliography
Author: William Antony S. Sarjeant
Publisher: Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher: Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Companion to the History of Modern Science
Author: G N Cantor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
* A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
* A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal
Essentials of Earth History: an Introduction to Historical Geology
Author: William Lee STOKES
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland
Author: H.P. Trettin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 081375450X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Fourteen chapters discuss regional stratigraphy by time intervals from Precambrian to Quaternary, while other chapters describe the geography, geomorphology, tectonics, geophysical characteristics, and resources of the region. A summary chapter includes geologic maps, structural cross-sections, a geotectonic correlation chart, a gravity map, and a location map for exploration wells in the Arctic Islands and northern Greenland. A wealth of additional information is contained on the nine accompanying plates.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 081375450X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Fourteen chapters discuss regional stratigraphy by time intervals from Precambrian to Quaternary, while other chapters describe the geography, geomorphology, tectonics, geophysical characteristics, and resources of the region. A summary chapter includes geologic maps, structural cross-sections, a geotectonic correlation chart, a gravity map, and a location map for exploration wells in the Arctic Islands and northern Greenland. A wealth of additional information is contained on the nine accompanying plates.