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Author: John KIRK (Congregational Minister.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Geological Theories; Being a Discourse on the Past and Present Relations of Geological Science to the ... Scriptures. [Reprinted from the Journal of Transactions of the Victoria Institute.]
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Author: John KIRK (Congregational Minister.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Darwin's First Theory
Author: Rob WessonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681773775
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Everybody knows—or thinks they know—Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist—on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna.Tracing Darwin’s footsteps in South America and beyond, geologist Rob Wesson sets out on a trek across the Andes, repeating the nautical surveys made by the Beagle’s crew, hunting for fossils in Uruguay and Argentina, and explores traces of long vanished glaciers in Scotland and Wales. By following Darwin’s path literally and intellectually, Rob experiences the landscape that absorbed Darwin, followed his reasoning about what he saw, and immerses himself in the same questions about the earth. Upon Darwin’s return from the five-year journey, he conceived his theory of tectonics—his first theory. These concepts and attitudes—the vastness of time; the enormous cumulative impact of almost imperceptibly slow change; change as a constant feature of the environment—underlie his subsequent discoveries in evolution. And this peculiar way of thinking remains vitally important today as we enter the Anthropocene.
New Theory of the Earth
Author: Don L. AndersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462083
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Theory of the Earth is an interdisciplinary advanced textbook on the origin, composition, and evolution of the Earth's interior: geophysics, geochemistry, dynamics, convection, mineralogy, volcanism, energetics and thermal history. This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth processes which ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines. It is a complete update of Anderson's Theory of the Earth (1989). It includes many new sections and dozens of new figures and tables. As with the original book, this new edition will prove to be a stimulating textbook on advanced courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and planetary science, and supplementary textbook on a wide range of other advanced Earth science courses. It will also be an essential reference and resource for all researchers in the solid Earth sciences.
Theory of the Earth
Author: Thomas NailPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 150362756X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or longer. Crafting a philosophy of geology that rewrites natural and human history from the broader perspective of movement, Thomas Nail provides a new materialist, kinetic ethics of the earth that speaks to this moment. Climate change and other ecological disruptions challenge us to reconsider the deep history of minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals and to take a more process-oriented perspective that sees humanity as part of the larger cosmic and terrestrial drama of mobility and flow. Building on his earlier work on the philosophy of movement, Nail argues that we should shift our biocentric emphasis from conservation to expenditure, flux, and planetary diversity. Theory of the Earth urges us to rethink our ethical relationship to one another, the planet, and the cosmos at large.
A Theory of Earth's Origin
Author: Otto SchmidtPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0898754240
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This book was originally published in 1949 and consists of four lectures which were delivered at the Academy of Sciences Geophysical Institute in 1948 on the author's hypothesis of the genesis of the Earth and other planets.
Theory of the Earth
Author: James HuttonPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781897799789
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Controversies in Modern Geology
Author: Daniel W. MüllerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A collection of papers covering sedimentology, Earth history, tectonics and geophysics which reflects current research in these fields. The manner in which discoveries in the Earth sciences contribute to the advancement of knowledge in geological science is highlighted.
The Diuturnal Theory of the Earth
Author: William AndrewsPublisher:
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Category : Earth
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
THEORY OF THE EARTH
Author: JAMES BRADFORD BABBITTPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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