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Grove Karl Gilbert : a great engine of research /
As Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert's range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert described two novel forms of mountain building, invente...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | American land and life series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author's Note to the Paperback Edition; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. In a Nutshell; The Education of a Classicist; A Clerk in the Cosmos; Of Mastodons and Mathematics: The Cohoes Potholes; Cracking the Nutshell; 2. "Astride the occidental mule"; A Volunteer Assistant; "Labels written by the Creator": John Strong Newberry; "Hydrographical peculiarities"; West with Wheeler; "A systematic approach": The Geology of a Reconnaissance; The Lieutenant and the Major; 3. The Major Years; "The western fever"; By Virtue of Its Ensemble: Powell, Dutton, Gilbert.
- "Certain allied problems in mechanics": The Henry MountainsLanguages for a New Geology: Mechanics, Mathematics, Literature; The Society of a Geologist; 4. A Great Engine of Research; The Division of the Great Basin; The Revolving Chair: Chief Geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey; The Scientist as Aristocrat: George Ferdinand Becker; Lake Bonneville; Time's Ratio: The Meaning of Geologic History; "A little daft on the subject of the moon"; The Great Basin Mess; 5. Grade; A "buried star"; The Mean Plain; The Inculcation of Scientific Method.
- The Text for a University Science: Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinAn Elder Statesman; 6. The Inculcation of Grove Karl Gilbert; Geophysics in the Giant Forest; Gilbert the Glaciologist; Gilbert the Geophysicist; Gilbert the Geomorphologist; The Cycle of Erosion: William Morris Davis; A New Life; Notes; Sources; Biographical Memoirs; Index.