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Geology in the Nineteenth Century : Changing Views of a Changing World
In this clear and comprehensive introduction to developments in geological theory during the nineteenth century, Mott T. Greene asserts that the standard accounts of nineteenth-century geology, which dwell on the work of Anglo-American scientists, have obscured the important contributions of Contine...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Geology in the Nineteenth Century; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Hutton and Werner: First Principles; Chapter 2. The Convergence of Geognosy and Geology, 1802-1818; Chapter 3. Elie de Beaumont and the First Global Tectonics; Chapter 4. The Origin of Mountain Ranges: European Debate, 1830-1874; Chapter 5. The Debate in North America, 1840-1873; Chapter 6. The Problem of the Alps and a Solution: Eduard Suess, 1875; Chapter 7. The Face of the Earth: Eduard Suess and the Second Global Tectonics; Chapter 8. The Nappe Theory in the Alps: Tectonics over Physics, 1878-1903.
- Chapter 9. New Orogenic Theory and Intercontinental CorrelationChapter 10. The Decline of the Contraction Theory: The Challenge from Geophysics, 1870-1909; Chapter 11. Thomas C. Chamberlin and the Third Global Tectonics; Chapter 12. Radioactivity, Continental Drift, and the Fourth Global Tectonics, 1908-1912; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.