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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64335762 Title: Earth cycles : a historical perspective Author: D R Oldroyd Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. ISBN/ISSN: 0313332290 9780313332296 OCLC:64335762

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Earth cycles : a historical perspective

Author:	D R Oldroyd
Publisher:	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series:	Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	D R Oldroyd Find more information about:
ISBN:	0313332290 9780313332296
OCLC Number:	64335762
Description:	xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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.
Series Title:	Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Responsibility:	David Oldroyd.
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