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Earth cycles : a historical perspective
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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
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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