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Challenger at Sea : A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science /
The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventure...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1992]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Plates
- Preface to the American Edition
- Preface to the Chinese Edition
- Preface to the German Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Moho and Mohole
- Chapter 2. Ice Age and LOCO
- Chapter 3. The Challenger Goes to Sea: The Inauguration of Glomar Challenger
- Chapter 4. The Earth Science Revolution
- Chapter 5. A Game of Numbers
- Chapter 6. Atlantic and Tethys
- Chapter 7. Arc and Trench in the Mediterranean
- Chapter 8. Swallowing Up of the Ocean Floor
- Chapter 9. Marginal Seas
- Chapter 10. Hope and Frustration in Nauru
- Chapter 11. HawaiianHot-Spot
- Chapter 12. India's Long March
- Chapter 13. EXPLORING NEW TERRITORIES, 1973-1975 Antarctic Adventures
- Chapter 14. Mid-Cretaceous Anoxia
- Chapter 15. When the Mediterranean Dried Up
- Chapter 16. The Black Sea Was Not Always Black
- Chapter 17. Getting Stuck in Ocean Crust
- Chapter 18 Eating Peanuts on Ocean Margins
- Chapter 19. What Makes the Ocean Run
- Chapter 20. The Great Dying
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. Deep-Sea Drilling Legs
- Appendix B. Bibliographical Notes
- Index.