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Author : Aurèle La Rocque
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Contributions to the History of Geology: Biographies of geologists written by Aurèle La Rocque and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587296185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Grove Karl Gilbert written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert’s range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert described two novel forms of mountain building, invented the concept of the graded stream, inaugurated modern theories of lunar origin, helped found the science of geomorphology, and added to the canon of conservation literature. Gilbert knew most of geology's grand figures--including John Wesley Powell, Clarence Dutton, and Clarence King--and Pyne's chronicle of the imperturbable, quietly unconventional Gilbert is couterpointed with sketches of these prominent scientists. The man who wrote that "happiness is sitting under a tent with walls uplifted, just after a brief shower,", created answers to the larger questions of the earth in ways that have become classics of his science.
Author : Cynthia V. Burek
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392274
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (922 download)
Download or read book The Role of Women in the History of Geology written by Cynthia V. Burek and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a first as it unravels the diverse roles women have played in the history and development of geology as a science predominantly in the UK, Ireland and Australia, and selectively in Germany, Russia and US. The volume covers the period from the late eighteenth century to the present day and shows how the roles that women have played changed with time. These included illustrators, museum collectors and curators, educationalists, researchers and geologists. Originally as wives, sisters or mothers many were assistants to their male relatives. This book looks at all these forgotten women and for the first time historians and scientists together explore the contribution they made to this male-dominated subject.
Author : Sandra Herbert
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801443480
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Charles Darwin, Geologist written by Sandra Herbert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pleasure of imagination.... I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical."--from Charles Darwin's Notebook M, 1838 The early nineteenth century was a golden age for the study of geology. New discoveries in the field were greeted with the same enthusiasm reserved today for advances in the biomedical sciences. In her long-awaited account of Charles Darwin's intellectual development, Sandra Herbert focuses on his geological training, research, and thought, asking both how geology influenced Darwin and how Darwin influenced the science. Elegantly written, extensively illustrated, and informed by the author's prodigious research in Darwin's papers and in the nineteenth-century history of earth sciences, Charles Darwin, Geologist provides a fresh perspective on the life and accomplishments of this exemplary thinker. As Herbert reveals, Darwin's great ambition as a young scientist--one he only partially realized--was to create a "simple" geology based on movements of the earth's crust. (Only one part of his scheme has survived in close to the form in which he imagined it: a theory explaining the structure and distribution of coral reefs.) Darwin collected geological specimens and took extensive notes on geology during all of his travels. His grand adventure as a geologist took place during the circumnavigation of the earth by H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836)--the same voyage that informed his magnum opus, On the Origin of Species. Upon his return to England it was his geological findings that first excited scientific and public opinion. Geologists, including Darwin's former teachers, proved a receptive audience, the British government sponsored publication of his research, and the general public welcomed his discoveries about the earth's crust. Because of ill health, Darwin's years as a geological traveler ended much too soon: his last major geological fieldwork took place in Wales when he was only thirty-three. However, the experience had been transformative: the methods and hypotheses of Victorian-era geology, Herbert suggests, profoundly shaped Darwin's mind and his scientific methods as he worked toward a full-blown understanding of evolution and natural selection.
Author : R. H. Grapes
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392557
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (925 download)
Download or read book History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology written by R. H. Grapes and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers deal with various aspects of the histories of geomorphology and Quaternary geology in different parts of the world. They include: the origin of the term 'Quaternary', histories of ideas and debates relating to aspects of fluvial geomorphology, glacial geomorphology and glaciation, desert dunes and the geology of Australia, peneplains in China, a palaeo-Tokyo Bay in Japan, together with biographies of Charles Cotton, Valerija Čepulytė and Česlovas Pakuckas that highlight their respective contributions to the disciplines of geomorphology and Quaternary geology.
Author : Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226754888
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Strata written by Oxford University Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story starts with William Smith's early years, from apprentice to surveyor for hire, and from publication of his groundbreaking 1815 geological strata map to imprisonment for debt. Smith's 1799 geological map of Bath and table of strata, his first strata map of England and Wales, published in 1801, and photographs of some of Smith's collection of 2,000 fossils illustrate the tale. The remainder of the book is organized into four parts, each beginning with four sheets from Smith's hand-colored, 1815 strata map, accompanied by related geological cross sections and county maps (1819-24), and followed by sections of Sowerby's fossil illustrations (1816-19), organized by strata. Interleaved between the sections are essays by scholars that focus on the people and industries that benefited from the knowledge imparted by Smith's work. Concluding the volume are reflections on Smith's later years as an itinerant geologist and surveyor, plagiarism by a rival, receipt of the first Wollaston Medal in recognition of his achievements, and the influence of his geological mapping and biostratigraphical theories on the sciences, which culminated in the establishment of the modern geological timescale"--
Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674883826
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Thinking about the Earth written by David Roger Oldroyd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.
Author : George Perkins Merrill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Contributions to the History of American Geology written by George Perkins Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodney Moffett
Publisher : UJ Press
ISBN 13 : 1920382356
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Contributors to the Natural History of the Free State and Lesotho written by Rodney Moffett and published by UJ Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work briefly records the lives and achievements of 502 men and women who contributed, or are still contributing, to the natural history of the Free State and Lesotho, between 1829 and 2013.
Author : Edmond A. Mathez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565845954
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Earth written by Edmond A. Mathez and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and articles provides a study of how the planet works, discussing Earth's structure, geographical features, geologic history, and evolution.
Author : George Perkins Merrill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contributions to the History of American Geology written by George Perkins Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708460
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Annals of the Former World written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Author : Grove Karl Gilbert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Moon's Face written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felix Gradstein
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444594485
Total Pages : 1175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The Geologic Time Scale 2012 written by Felix Gradstein and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 1175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geologic Time Scale 2012, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Best Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the framework for deciphering the history of our planet Earth. The authors have been at the forefront of chronostratigraphic research and initiatives to create an international geologic time scale for many years, and the charts in this book present the most up-to-date, international standard, as ratified by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences. This 2012 geologic time scale is an enhanced, improved and expanded version of the GTS2004, including chapters on planetary scales, the Cryogenian-Ediacaran periods/systems, a prehistory scale of human development, a survey of sequence stratigraphy, and an extensive compilation of stable-isotope chemostratigraphy. This book is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals. The presentation is non-technical and illustrated with numerous colour charts, maps and photographs. The book also includes a detachable wall chart of the complete time scale for use as a handy reference in the office, laboratory or field. - The most detailed international geologic time scale available that contextualizes information in one single reference for quick desktop access - Gives insights in the construction, strengths, and limitations of the geological time scale that greatly enhances its function and its utility - Aids understanding by combining with the mathematical and statistical methods to scaled composites of global succession of events - Meets the needs of a range of users at various points in the workflow (researchers extracting linear time from rock records, students recognizing the geologic stage by their content)
Author : Sir Charles Lyell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Principles of Geology written by Sir Charles Lyell and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellis Leon Yochelson
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873385992
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist written by Ellis Leon Yochelson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of geologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) documents his career and life from birth to his retirement from the US Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Author : George Perkins Merrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Contributions to the History of American Geology. (In: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year ending 1904). written by George Perkins Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
