Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Leidsche geologische mededelingen
Author: Leidse geologische mededelingen
Author: Leidsche geologische mededeelingen
Author: The Pulse of the Earth
Author: Adam BobbettePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478027088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of volcanoes. Bobbette follows Javanese knowledge traditions, colonial geologists, volcanologists, mystics, Theosophists, orientalists, and revolutionaries to show how the earth sciences originate from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork at Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, he explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth. In this way, Bobbette decenters the significance of Western scientists to expand our understanding of the evolution of planetary thought and rethinks the politics of geological knowledge.
Leidsche geologische mededeelingen
Author: Berend George EscherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Palaeozoic Conodonts from Northern Spain
Author: Susana García-LópezPublisher: IGME
ISBN: 9788478404469
Category : Carbonate rocks
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach
Author: Cecilio QuesadaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030105199
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Taking a new global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective. Owing to its location close to successive plate margins, Iberia has played a pivotal role in the geodynamic evolution of the Gondwanan, Rheic, Pangea, Tethys s.l. and Eurasian plates over the last 600 Ma of Earth's history. The geological record starts with the amalgamation of Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic succeeded by the rifting and spreading of the Rheic ocean; its demise, which led to the amalgamation of Pangea in the late Paleozoic; the rifting and spreading of several arms of the Neotethys ocean in the Mesozoic Era and their ongoing closure, which was responsible for the Alpine orogeny. The significant advances in the last 20 years have attracted international research interest in the geology of the Iberian Peninsula. This volume presents the most comprehensive, careful and updated description of the variscan cycle in Iberia. This volume focuses in the different geological events since the Cambrian-Early Ordovician rift until the late variscan orocline formations including magmatic and metamorphic evolution.
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Tropical Forests of the Guiana Shield
Author: D. S. HammondPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9781845930929
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural history of the forests of the area.