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Breakthroughs in Geology : Ideas That Transformed Earth Science.
Geological research does not flow steadily onwards by means of small incremental advances but can be better understood as a series of significant discoveries or changes in interpretation that transformed the way we understand the Earth.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Dunedin Academic Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Uniformitarianism: the first breakthrough
- Evolution and the Origin of Species
- Continental drift
- Mantle convection: a mechanism for continental drift?
- Deformation ellipsoid to ductile shear zone
- Plate tectonics
- Ophiolites: clues to the ocean crust and mantle
- Fault system kinematics
- Back-arc basins and trench roll-back
- Hot-spots and mantle plumes
- Sequence stratigraphy
- Gravity spreading.