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Earth cycles : a historical perspective
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Earth cycles : a historical perspective

著者: D R Oldroyd
出版商: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
丛书: Greenwood guides to great ideas in science.
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"Shows the importance of the history of geological cycles for understanding earth sciences today."--Jacket.
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Oldroyd, D.R. (David Roger)
Earth cycles.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006
(OCoLC)648274121
材料类型: 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: D R Oldroyd
ISBN: 0313332290 9780313332296
OCLC号码: 64335762
描述: xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
内容: 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.
丛书名: Greenwood guides to great ideas in science.
责任: David Oldroyd.
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One concept that greatly aided the scientific advance of the earth sciences was that of geological cycles. This work traces the history of this concept from the ancient philosophers to the modern  再读一些...

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"The book examines the historical and theoretical contexts for the development of cyclic theories in the geosciences (chapters 1-6); the practical utilization of cyclic theories in the geosciences, namely, geophysics, geochemistry, structural geology, soil science, oceanography/hydrology, glaciology, and the atmospheric sciences (chapters 7-13); and the summarization and meta-theoretical discussion of the centrality of cyclicity in the geosciences (chapter 14)....[p]rovides an apt introduction and overview of cyclic theories and cyclicity in geoscience. List of illustrations; time line; international stratigraphic chart; glossary; further reading list. Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through professionals." -

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