Author: William John Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
An Introduction to Geology (physical and Historical)
Author: William John Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
An Introduction to Historical Geology
Author: William John Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Hesperas, Rhythm and Rhyme
Author: Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385313694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385313694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
A History of the Earth
Author: John J. W. Rogers
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521397827
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book surveys the history of the Earth and the nature of the processes that controlled its history. Integrating information from many fields, the book focuses on fundamental processes, the geological record, historical topics, and specific areas such as the development of modern ocean basins and the nature of cratonic sedimentary cover sequences.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521397827
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book surveys the history of the Earth and the nature of the processes that controlled its history. Integrating information from many fields, the book focuses on fundamental processes, the geological record, historical topics, and specific areas such as the development of modern ocean basins and the nature of cratonic sedimentary cover sequences.
The Pulse of the Earth
Author: Adam Bobbette
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478027088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of volcanoes. Bobbette follows Javanese knowledge traditions, colonial geologists, volcanologists, mystics, Theosophists, orientalists, and revolutionaries to show how the earth sciences originate from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork at Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, he explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth. In this way, Bobbette decenters the significance of Western scientists to expand our understanding of the evolution of planetary thought and rethinks the politics of geological knowledge.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478027088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of volcanoes. Bobbette follows Javanese knowledge traditions, colonial geologists, volcanologists, mystics, Theosophists, orientalists, and revolutionaries to show how the earth sciences originate from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork at Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, he explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth. In this way, Bobbette decenters the significance of Western scientists to expand our understanding of the evolution of planetary thought and rethinks the politics of geological knowledge.
The Key to Earth History
Author: Peter Doyle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471492159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Key to Earth History introduces students to the basic tools used by geologists to reconstruct the Earth's history, and shows how these tools can be used to chart the pattern of global environmental change since the formation of the Earth some 4600 million years ago. It tells a story of mountain building, climate change and of the evolution of life, and uses the North Atlantic region (Europe and North America) as a study area to illustrate this story. Divided into two parts, the book shows how stratigraphy is the key to understanding the history of the Earth. The first part examines the basic stratigraphical methods used to establish, date and interpret the rock record as the product of a series of events whithin Earth history. The second part presents the results obtained by geologists, who have used these stratigraphical tools to reconstruct the pattern of global environmental change through geological time and focuses on the geological evolution of the North Atlantic region. The Key to Earth History is essential reading for geologists, geographers and environmental scientists, as well as to all those interested in the story of the planet. "The authors provide no one with an alibi for bad stratigraphic teaching!" —Geoscientist "The aims of this introductory textbook are to explain the process and pattern of Earth history, to generate interest and enthusiasm, to make stratigraphy fun and exciting! These aims are admirably achieved." —The Holocene "This is a great little book! I found that, not only was everything covered, but that it was covered in a refreshing, readable, no-nonsense fashion." —Earth Science Reviews "The Key to Earth History really should be compulsory reading for all ... geology students." —Geologie
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471492159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Key to Earth History introduces students to the basic tools used by geologists to reconstruct the Earth's history, and shows how these tools can be used to chart the pattern of global environmental change since the formation of the Earth some 4600 million years ago. It tells a story of mountain building, climate change and of the evolution of life, and uses the North Atlantic region (Europe and North America) as a study area to illustrate this story. Divided into two parts, the book shows how stratigraphy is the key to understanding the history of the Earth. The first part examines the basic stratigraphical methods used to establish, date and interpret the rock record as the product of a series of events whithin Earth history. The second part presents the results obtained by geologists, who have used these stratigraphical tools to reconstruct the pattern of global environmental change through geological time and focuses on the geological evolution of the North Atlantic region. The Key to Earth History is essential reading for geologists, geographers and environmental scientists, as well as to all those interested in the story of the planet. "The authors provide no one with an alibi for bad stratigraphic teaching!" —Geoscientist "The aims of this introductory textbook are to explain the process and pattern of Earth history, to generate interest and enthusiasm, to make stratigraphy fun and exciting! These aims are admirably achieved." —The Holocene "This is a great little book! I found that, not only was everything covered, but that it was covered in a refreshing, readable, no-nonsense fashion." —Earth Science Reviews "The Key to Earth History really should be compulsory reading for all ... geology students." —Geologie
Timefulness
Author: Marcia Bjornerud
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069120263X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069120263X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
The Earth
Author: Chester Albert Reeds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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.
The United States Catalog
Author: Mary Burnham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description