Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Greenwood guides to great ideas in scienceالناشر:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006وصف:xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0313332290 (hbk)
- 9780313332296 (hbk)
- QE33.2.P47 O63 2006
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | QE33.2.P47 O63 2006 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011077471 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | QE33.2.P47 O63 2006 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011077470 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-224) and index.
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.