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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Geological Survey Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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New Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Fusion Energy Update
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Category : Controlled fusion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Controlled fusion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences
Author: James Lawrence Powell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538456
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific—and sometimes religious—heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to accept each theory. The stories behind these four discoveries reflect more than the fascinating push and pull of scientific work. They reveal the provocative nature of science and how it raises profound and sometimes uncomfortable truths as it advances. For example, counter to common sense, the Earth and the solar system are older than all of human existence; the interactions among the moving plates and the continents they carry account for nearly all of the Earth's surface features; and nearly every important feature of our solar system results from the chance collision of objects in space. Most surprising of all, we humans have altered the climate of an entire planet and now threaten the future of civilization. This absorbing scientific history is the only book to describe the evolution of these four ideas from heresy to truth, showing how science works in practice and how it inevitably corrects the mistakes of its practitioners. Scientists can be wrong, but they do not stay wrong. In the process, astonishing ideas are born, tested, and over time take root.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538456
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific—and sometimes religious—heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to accept each theory. The stories behind these four discoveries reflect more than the fascinating push and pull of scientific work. They reveal the provocative nature of science and how it raises profound and sometimes uncomfortable truths as it advances. For example, counter to common sense, the Earth and the solar system are older than all of human existence; the interactions among the moving plates and the continents they carry account for nearly all of the Earth's surface features; and nearly every important feature of our solar system results from the chance collision of objects in space. Most surprising of all, we humans have altered the climate of an entire planet and now threaten the future of civilization. This absorbing scientific history is the only book to describe the evolution of these four ideas from heresy to truth, showing how science works in practice and how it inevitably corrects the mistakes of its practitioners. Scientists can be wrong, but they do not stay wrong. In the process, astonishing ideas are born, tested, and over time take root.
Geologic Literature on North America, 1785-1918
Author: John Milton Nickles (paléontologue).)
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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Biological & Agricultural Index
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1440
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1440
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Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Agricultural Index
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
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