A Brief History of Geology

ISBN-13: 9781107176188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 274 str.

Kieran O'Hara

Opis

The first book to place the history of geology into the larger context of the history of science in general.

Recenzje

'The nearly four-century existence of geology as a concept - 'the study of the Earth with its Furniture' as it was first put - has been mired in periods of uncertainty, revolution, speculation and controversy. Kieran D. O'Hara has tied it all up in a concise, neatly arranged and highly readable summary, essential to all who want to know more of the fascinating story of this most fundamental of sciences.' Simon Winchester, author of The Map That Changed the World

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Major nineteenth-century players; 2. Towards a geologic time scale; 3. A vestige of a beginning: the age of the Earth; 4. The origin of Igneous rocks; 5. Tectonics in crisis; 6. Continental drift; 7. Plate tectonics; 8. Isotope and trace element geology; 9. Ice ages and ice cores; 10. Geology and evolution of the Moon; 11. Welcome to the anthropocene: a man-made epoch?; 12. The structure of geological revolutions; Index.

O autorze

O'Hara, Kieran D. Kieran D. O'Hara is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He has published more than 40 articles in international journals and has received numerous research awards from the American National Science Foundation. He taught geology at undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Kentucky for thirty years. His other books include Cave Art and Climate Change (2014) and Earth Resources and Environmental Impacts (2014).