Author: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
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Category : Continental drift
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Theory of Continental Drift; a Symposium on the Origin and Movement of Land Masses, Both Inter-continental and Intra-continental, as Proposed by Alfred Wegener
Author: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Publisher:
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Category : Continental drift
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continental drift
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 1, Wegener and the Early Debate
Author: Henry R. Frankel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316616045
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
The definitive account of the early debate over Wegener's theory of continental drift, based on extensive interviews and archival material.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316616045
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
The definitive account of the early debate over Wegener's theory of continental drift, based on extensive interviews and archival material.
The Continental Drift Controversy
Author: Henry R. Frankel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521875048
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521875048
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.
Theory of Continental Drift
Author: Willem Anton Josef Maria van Waterschoot van der Gracht
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Explaining Science
Author: Ronald N. Giere
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292037
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the positions of various postpositivist philosophers of science, developing significant alternatives to each in a reeadily comprehensible sytle. It draws loosely on recent developments in cognitive science, without burdening the argument with detailed results from that source. . . . The book is thus a provocative one. Perhaps that is a measure of its value: it will lead scholars and serious student from a number of science studies disciplines into continued and sharpened debate over fundamental questions."—Richard Burian, Isis "The writing is delightfully clear and accessible. On balance, few books advance our subject as well."—Paul Teller, Philosophy of Science
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292037
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the positions of various postpositivist philosophers of science, developing significant alternatives to each in a reeadily comprehensible sytle. It draws loosely on recent developments in cognitive science, without burdening the argument with detailed results from that source. . . . The book is thus a provocative one. Perhaps that is a measure of its value: it will lead scholars and serious student from a number of science studies disciplines into continued and sharpened debate over fundamental questions."—Richard Burian, Isis "The writing is delightfully clear and accessible. On balance, few books advance our subject as well."—Paul Teller, Philosophy of Science
Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones
Author: Joao C. Duarte
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128122463
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones bridges the gap between the classic plate tectonic theory and new emerging ideas, offering an assessment of the state-of-the-art, pending questions, and future directions in the study of transform plate boundaries and fracture zones. The book includes a number of case studies and reviews on both oceanic and continental tectonic settings. Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones is a timely reference for a variety of researchers, including geophysicists, seismologists, structural geologists and tectonicists, as well as specialists in exploration geophysics and natural hazards. This book can also be used as an up-to-date reference at universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. - Reviews ideas and concepts about transform plate boundaries and fracture zones - Includes a variety of case studies on both oceanic and continental settings - Addresses innovative and provocative ideas about the activity of fracture zones and transform faults and their impacts to the human society
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128122463
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones bridges the gap between the classic plate tectonic theory and new emerging ideas, offering an assessment of the state-of-the-art, pending questions, and future directions in the study of transform plate boundaries and fracture zones. The book includes a number of case studies and reviews on both oceanic and continental tectonic settings. Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones is a timely reference for a variety of researchers, including geophysicists, seismologists, structural geologists and tectonicists, as well as specialists in exploration geophysics and natural hazards. This book can also be used as an up-to-date reference at universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. - Reviews ideas and concepts about transform plate boundaries and fracture zones - Includes a variety of case studies on both oceanic and continental settings - Addresses innovative and provocative ideas about the activity of fracture zones and transform faults and their impacts to the human society
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods
Author: Randy Allen Harris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040280242
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science, tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s. A companion to Randy Allen Harris’s foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies, this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R. Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris’s detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context, and frames the important contributions of each essay, which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon. This collection serves as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in science studies, and is an invaluable resource for researchers concerned with science not as a special, autonomous, sacrosanct enterprise, but as a set of value-saturated, profoundly influential rhetorical practices.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040280242
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science, tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s. A companion to Randy Allen Harris’s foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies, this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R. Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris’s detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context, and frames the important contributions of each essay, which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon. This collection serves as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in science studies, and is an invaluable resource for researchers concerned with science not as a special, autonomous, sacrosanct enterprise, but as a set of value-saturated, profoundly influential rhetorical practices.
‘Africa Forms the Key’
Author: Suryakanthie Chetty
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030527115
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally. It contextualises Du Toit’s work within a particularly formative period of South African science, from the paleoanthropological discoveries that sparked debates about the origins of humankind to Jan Smuts’ own theory of holism. Beyond South African scientific discoveries, the book sets Du Toit’s work against a backdrop of ideological struggles over space, both domestically in terms of segregation and nationalism, as well as internationally as South Africa sought to assert its position within the Commonwealth. These debates were embodied by Du Toit’s work on the theory of continental drift, which put Africa – and South Africa – at the centre geologically and geographically. The author also focuses on the divisions in geology caused by drift theory, tracing the vigorous intellectual debate and dissent indicative of the ideological milieu within which scientific thought is constructed. It traces the history of continental drift from its inception in the nineteenth century and later work of Alfred Wegener, which was both elaborated upon and substantiated by Du Toit. The study further focuses on Du Toit’s research on continental drift in South African and South America, and the geological, fossil and climatological evidence used to bolster this theory.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030527115
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally. It contextualises Du Toit’s work within a particularly formative period of South African science, from the paleoanthropological discoveries that sparked debates about the origins of humankind to Jan Smuts’ own theory of holism. Beyond South African scientific discoveries, the book sets Du Toit’s work against a backdrop of ideological struggles over space, both domestically in terms of segregation and nationalism, as well as internationally as South Africa sought to assert its position within the Commonwealth. These debates were embodied by Du Toit’s work on the theory of continental drift, which put Africa – and South Africa – at the centre geologically and geographically. The author also focuses on the divisions in geology caused by drift theory, tracing the vigorous intellectual debate and dissent indicative of the ideological milieu within which scientific thought is constructed. It traces the history of continental drift from its inception in the nineteenth century and later work of Alfred Wegener, which was both elaborated upon and substantiated by Du Toit. The study further focuses on Du Toit’s research on continental drift in South African and South America, and the geological, fossil and climatological evidence used to bolster this theory.