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Author : A. Hallam
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Revolution in the Earth Sciences written by A. Hallam and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Lenton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191501778
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Revolutions that Made the Earth written by Tim Lenton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in complexity, energy utilization, and information processing by life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence of the evolution of life and its non-living environment. We would not exist unless these upheavals had led eventually to 'successful' outcomes - meaning that after each one, at length, a new stable world emerged. The current planet-reshaping activities of our species may be the start of another great Earth system revolution, but there is no guarantee that this one will be successful. The book explains what a successful transition through it might look like, if we are wise enough to steer such a course. This book places humanity in context as part of the Earth system, using a new scientific synthesis to illustrate our debt to the deep past and our potential for the future.
Author : William Glen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804711197
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Road to Jaramillo written by William Glen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story, told here for the first time, of how an international cast of scientists produced the discoveries that brought about the plate-tectonics revolution. In preparing this book the author interviewed virtually all of the important contributors to that critical decade of research, 1957-66. Working in the tradition of history of science, he explores personal relationships, institutional support, and the rivalries and frictions between and within research groups.
Author : Anthony Hallam
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book A Revolution in the Earth Sciences written by Anthony Hallam and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lawrence Powell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538456
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences written by James Lawrence Powell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Emil Ludwig
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (329 download)
Download or read book A Revolution in the Earth Sciences written by Emil Ludwig and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T.R. Paton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400940696
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on a Dynamic Earth written by T.R. Paton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to put into practice these precepts of Popper and Koestler as far as they can be applied to the Earth sciences at an elementary level. It is felt that the time is ripe for such a presentation, for the revolution that has taken place over the past 20 years within the Earth sciences has made more people directly aware of the way science works and of the necessity of knowing its history to achieve a full understanding of the problems involved. Emerging from the revolution has been the immensely unifying and extremely fruitful concept of plate tectonics, and developments leading to its establishment form the core of the book (Chs 4, 5 & 6). However, to see plate tectonics in context, it is necessary to look at what happened before, and this is done in the first three chapters. Chapter 1 is concerned with the development of ideas about the shape, size and mass of the Earth, which led to broad concepts about the Earth's structure and finally to a model of a cooling, contracting Earth, capable of explaining geological history and the major topographic features of the Earth. Chapter 2 goes on to show how even though the acceptance of this idea gradually broke down in the first half of the 20th century, possible alternatives, which are now at the core of plate tectonics, were also rejected.
Author : Open University. Science Foundation Course Team
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Science written by Open University. Science Foundation Course Team and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shelby J. Boardman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Revolution in the Earth Sciences written by Shelby J. Boardman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Open University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Science Foundation Course written by Open University and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780335080540
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Plate Tectonics: a Revolution in the Earth Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780335080540
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780335163281
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Plate Tectonics: a Revolution in the Earth Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Pentz
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ISBN 13 : 9780335080540
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Plate Tectonics: a revolution in the earth sciences written by Mike Pentz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary D. Rosenberg
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813712033
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment written by Gary D. Rosenberg and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Lenton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191028959
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction written by Tim Lenton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is known as Earth System Science. In this Very Short Introduction, Tim Lenton considers how a world in which humans could evolve was created; how, as a species, we are now reshaping that world; and what a sustainable future for humanity within the Earth System might look like. Drawing on elements of geology, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, Lenton asks whether Earth System Science can help guide us onto a sustainable course before we alter the Earth system to the point where we destroy ourselves and our current civilisation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Open University. Science Foundation Course Team
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780335080540
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Science. Unit 6 written by Open University. Science Foundation Course Team and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
