Author: Bruce C. Heezen, Marie Tharp, and Maurice Ewing
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813720656
Category : Ocean bottom
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Author: Bruce C. Heezen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258423650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Text To Accompany The Physiographic Diagram Of The North Atlantic. The Geological Society Of America Special Paper, No. 65.

Author: Rob van der Voo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521419417
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Continents move around continuously with respect to each other; this book describes what went where.

Author: David Armitage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108423183
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.

Author: Steven Earle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537068824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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This is a discount Black and white version. Some images may be unclear, please see BCCampus website for the digital version.This book was born out of a 2014 meeting of earth science educators representing most of the universities and colleges in British Columbia, and nurtured by a widely shared frustration that many students are not thriving in courses because textbooks have become too expensive for them to buy. But the real inspiration comes from a fascination for the spectacular geology of western Canada and the many decades that the author spent exploring this region along with colleagues, students, family, and friends. My goal has been to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to the important topics of geology, richly illustrated with examples from western Canada. Although this text is intended to complement a typical first-year course in physical geology, its contents could be applied to numerous other related courses.

Author: Matthew Fontaine Maury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Arthur E. Maxwell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674017313
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Author: Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Laboratory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Category : Marine meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: Hali Felt
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466847468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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“A fascinating account of a woman working without much recognition . . . to map the ocean floor and change the course of ocean science.” —San Francisco Chronicle Soundings is the story of the enigmatic woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean’s depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift. Marie’s scientific knowledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed not a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcanoes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time. Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come. “Felt’s enthusiasm for Tharp reaches the page, revealing Tharp, who died in 2006, to be a strong-willed woman living according to her own rules.” —The Washington Post