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Four revolutions in the earth sciences : from heresy to truth /
Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. This scientific history describes the evolution of these four ideas from heresy to truth, showing how s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I DEEP TIME
- The Abyss of Time
- A Great Mistake Has Been Made
- The Bank of Time
- Account Overdrawn
- Strange Rays
- An Hourglass of Great Precision
- Geochronology
- Duck Soup
- pt. II CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND PLATE TECTONICS
- An Idea to Pursue
- A Very Trusting Man
- Dead on Arrival
- Geologists Unite Against Heresy
- Continental Drift: Not Even Wrong
- Postwar Surprises
- Wandering Poles or Drifting Continents?
- The Final Confrontation
- Spreading Seafloors
- HypotHESSes
- The Discovery of the Century
- All This Rubbish
- pt. III METEORITE IMPACT
- A Trivial Process
- To Hunt a Star
- The Moon's Face
- Rosetta Stone
- To a Rocky Moon
- Worlds in Collision
- Dinosaur Killer
- Out with a Bang
- Cosmic Pinball
- pt. IV GLOBAL WARMING
- Origins of the CO2 Theory
- Tedious Calculations of Extraordinary Interest
- Destructive Criticism
- A Unique Experiment of Planetary Dimensions
- Giant Brains.
- Note continued: Warming Is Unequivocal
- From Heresy to Truth.