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Author : Samuel Rowles Pattison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Chronology of Recent Geology. To which is Added the Discussion Thereon written by Samuel Rowles Pattison and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Rowles PATTISON
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book On the Chronology of Recent Geology ... To which is Added, the Discussion Thereon. Reprinted from the Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Etc written by Samuel Rowles PATTISON and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Rowles Pattison
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Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (345 download)
Download or read book On the Chronology of Recent Geology, to which is Added the Discussion Thereon written by Samuel Rowles Pattison and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Rowles Pattison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book On the Chronology of Recent Geology written by Samuel Rowles Pattison and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hutton (F.G.S., Captain, Bengal Army.)
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Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chronology of Creation; Or, Geology and Scripture Reconciled written by Thomas Hutton (F.G.S., Captain, Bengal Army.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dvorak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135759
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book How the Mountains Grew written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise. But what were those forces? And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others? When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift. As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us. But tectonics cannot—and do not—explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape. What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses. A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, John Dvorak's How the Mountains Grew will fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.
Author : Kieran D. O'Hara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107176182
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Geology written by Kieran D. O'Hara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 200 years of the history of the development of the study of geology.
Author : Sir John William Dawson
Publisher : W. Drysdale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Meeting Place of Geology and History written by Sir John William Dawson and published by W. Drysdale. This book was released on 1894 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Society of London
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Chronology of the Geological Record written by Geological Society of London and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1985 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Scott Moore
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Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Pre-glacial Man, and Geological Chronology written by J. Scott Moore and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pascal Richet
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226712893
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of Time written by Pascal Richet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself. Richet begins his story with mythological traditions, which were heavily influenced by the seasons and almost uniformly viewed time cyclically. The linear history promulgated by Judaism, with its story of creation, was an exception, and it was that tradition that drove early Christian attempts to date the Earth. For instance, in 169 CE, the bishop of Antioch, for instance declared that the world had been in existence for “5,698 years and the odd months and days.” Until the mid-eighteenth century, such natural timescales derived from biblical chronologies prevailed, but, Richet demonstrates, with the Scientific Revolution geological and astronomical evidence for much longer timescales began to accumulate. Fossils and the developing science of geology provided compelling evidence for periods of millions and millions of years—a scale that even scientists had difficulty grasping. By the end of the twentieth century, new tools such as radiometric dating had demonstrated that the solar system is four and a half billion years old, and the universe itself about twice that, though controversial questions remain. The quest for time is a story of ingenuity and determination, and like a geologist, Pascal Richet carefully peels back the strata of that history, giving us a chance to marvel at each layer and truly appreciate how far our knowledge—and our planet—have come.
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 : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620409X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Earth's Deep History written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tells the story . . . of how ‘natural philosophers’ developed the ideas of geology accepted today . . . Fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review Earth has been witness to dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? In this sweeping and accessible book, Martin J. S. Rudwick, the premier historian of the Earth sciences, tells the gripping human story of the gradual realization that the Earth’s history has not only been long but also astonishingly eventful. Rudwick begins in the seventeenth century with Archbishop James Ussher, who famously dated the creation of the cosmos to 4004 BC. His narrative later turns to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when geological evidence was used—and is still being used—to reconstruct a history of the Earth that is as varied and unpredictable as human history. itself. Along the way, Rudwick rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of the Earth’s deep history retains strong roots in Judeo-Christian ideas. Extensively illustrated, Earth’s Deep History is an engaging and impressive capstone to Rudwick’s distinguished career. “Deftly explains how ideas of natural history were embedded in cultural history.” —Nature “An engaging read for nonscientists and specialists alike.” —Library Journal “Wonderfully erudite and absorbing.” —Times Literary Supplement “Fascinating, well written, and novel . . . Essential.” —Choice “Thrilling.” —London Review of Books
Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226731146
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Bursting the Limits of Time written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.
Author : Karl Alfred von Zittel
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Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Geology and Palaeontology written by Karl Alfred von Zittel and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew H. Knoll
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062853937
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Earth written by Andrew H. Knoll and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP) “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).
Author : Gabriel Gohau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Geology written by Gabriel Gohau and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gohau looks at the early theories of the formation of the world and then moves to philosophical debates over mountains, fossils, the Flood, volcanoes, and cycles of earth history that preoccupied the geologists and biologists of the late 18th and 19th century. He concludes with an account of 20th century geology's scientific revolution. Revised and translated from the French (Editions La Decouverte, 1987). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
