Discovering the ice ages : international reception and consequences for a historical understanding of climate /

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In Discovering the Ice Ages Tobias Krüger explores the discovery of the Ice Ages over the course of the 19th century, how the idea was received, and what further research it stimulated for the first time from an international perspective.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krüger, Tobias, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Colección:History of science and medicine library ; v. 37.
Temas:
From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
Geology, Stratigraphic > Pleistocene.
Glacial epoch.
Geology > History.
Climatology > History.
Stratigraphie > Pléistocène.
Époque glaciaire.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
Climatology
Geology
Geology, Stratigraphic
Glacial epoch
Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • How Erratic Blocks Caught the Eye of Science
  • Glacier Advances and Icy Theories : 1810-1830
  • Glacier and Ice-Age Theories in the First Half of the 1830's
  • The Grand Synthesis
  • International Reception of Glacial Theory
  • The Search for Causes of the Ice Ages
  • Conclusions.

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