Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd
- Bib ID:
- 3968072
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Oldroyd, D. R. (David Roger)
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood, c2006
- xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780313332296
- 0313332290
- Series:
- Greenwood guides to great ideas in science, 1559-5374.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: thinking in cycles
- Ideas of geocycles from the ancient world to the renaissance
- Straightforward thinking about the earth
- Robert Hooke and the first testable-in-principle theory of geological cycles
- The founder of geology? James Hutton and the geostrophic cycle, and a French cyclist
- Charles Lyell: an earth always changing but ever the same
- Cycling in the landscape
- Mountains, basins, and sediments
- The earth, the solar system, cycles, and glaciation
- Cycles in the strata: cyclothems
- Sequence stratigraphy and eustasy
- The geomagnetic timescale and related matters
- Geochemical cycling
- Themes and variations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-224) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2006
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