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Introduction. The study of the earth / J.F. White --
The law of uniformity and geologic time. James Hutton / Karl von Zittel --
The uniformity of nature / Charles Coulston Gillispie --
Measuring geologic time / Adolph Knopf. --
The earth model: problems and implications. The interior of the earth as revealed by earthquakes / I. Lehmann --
The radioactive earth / Patrick M. Hurley --
The AMSOC hole to the earth's mantle / H.H. Hess --
Crustal features and processes. The crust / J. Tuzo Wilson --
Instability of sea level / Richard J. Russell --
Questions of the coral reefs / Norman D. Newell --
How volcanoes grow / J.P. Eaton and K.J. Murata --
Coesite craters and space geology / W.T. Pecora --
The stratigraphic panorama / Hollis D. Hedberg --
Past climates and drifting continents. A theory of ice ages / Maurice Ewing and William L. Donn --
A theory of ice ages II / Maurice Ewing and William L. Donn --
Carbon dioxide and the climate / Gilbert N. Plass --
The record of climatic change as revealed by vertebrate paleocology [i.e. paleoecology] / Edwin H. Colbert --
Bearing of forests on the theory of continental drift / Ralph W. Chaney --
Rock magnetism / S.K. Runcorn --
The history of life. The course of evolution / George Gaylord Simpson --
Theories of evolution / George Gaylord Simpson --
Origin of the amniote egg / Alfred S. Romer --
Origen of the Pacific island molluscan fauna / Harry S. Ladd --
Origin of life / Elso S. Barghoorn --
Origin and evolution of the earth. The origin of continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins / George C. Kennedy --
Development of the hydrosphere and atmosphere, with special reference to probable composition of the early atmosphere / William W. Rubey --
The origin of the earth / Harold C. Urey --
Appendix. The geologic time scale --
Selected references --
Biographic notes --
Glossary of selected terms. |
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