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Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.
- Title
- Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.
- Author
- Oldroyd, D. R. (David Roger)
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QE33.2.P47 O63 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- Summary
- "Shows the importance of the history of geological cycles for understanding earth sciences today."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Greenwood guides to great ideas in science, 1559-5374
- Uniform Title
- Greenwood guides to great ideas in science.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-224) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0313332290 (alk. paper)
- 9780313332296
- LCCN
- ^^2006004787
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library