| Description |
xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Greenwood guides to great ideas in science,
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Greenwood guides to great ideas in science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: thinking in cycles -- Ideas of geocycles from the ancient world to the renaissance -- Straightforward thinking about the earth -- Robert Hooke and the first testable-in-principle theory of geological cycles -- The founder of geology? James Hutton and the geostrophic cycle, and a French cyclist -- Charles Lyell: an earth always changing but ever the same -- Cycling in the landscape -- Mountains, basins, and sediments -- The earth, the solar system, cycles, and glaciation -- Cycles in the strata: cyclothems -- Sequence stratigraphy and eustasy -- The geomagnetic timescale and related matters -- Geochemical cycling -- Themes and variations. |
| Subject |
Geology -- Periodicity.
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Geology -- Periodicity. |
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Geological time.
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Geological time. |
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Cycles.
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Cycles. |
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Geology -- Philosophy.
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Geology -- Philosophy. |
| ISBN |
0313332290 alkaline paper |
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9780313332296 alkaline paper |
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