Download or read book History of Geoscience written by W. Mayer and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the Earth’s origin, its composition, the processes that changed and shaped it over time and the fossils preserved in rocks, have occupied enquiring minds from ancient times. The contributions in this volume trace the history of ideas and the research of scholars in a wide range of geological disciplines that have paved the way to our present-day understanding and knowledge of the physical nature of our planet and the diversity of life that inhabited it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Commission on the History of Geology (INHIGEO), the book features contributions that give insights into its establishment and progress. In other sections authors reflect on the value of studying the history of the geosciences and provide accounts of early investigations in fields as diverse as tectonics, volcanology, geomorphology, vertebrate palaeontology and petroleum geology. Other papers discuss the establishment of geological surveys, the contribution of women to geology and biographical sketches of noted scholars in various fields of geoscience.

Download or read book An Introduction to Historical Geology written by William John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Naissance de la g ologie historique written by Gabriel Gohau and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si la géologie est une science expérimentale, elle s'intéresse aussi à l'histoire, celle de la succession irréversible d'événements qui ont eu lieu dans le passé de la Terre. L'ouvrage cherche à élucider la formation de cette science historique et non plus expérimentale.

Download or read book History of Geology written by F. Ellenberger and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation of "Histoire de la geologie, tome 2". It covers theories and the theory of the Earth, collective ideas on the Earth between 1650 and 1830, and the discovery of extinct volanoes in Europe.

Download or read book A History of Geology written by Gabriel Gohau and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISBN 081351665X LCCN 9047755.

Download or read book Historical Geology written by Jon Erickson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the formation of Earth and the evolution of various forms of life, and includes a glossary of related terms.

Download or read book A Text book of Geology written by Louis Valentine Pirsson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook of physical geology designed for both the post-secondary student and the general reader. Two sections: dynamical geology and structural geology. Volume 2 of the set deals with historical geology and is written by Charles Schuchert.

Download or read book The Meeting Place of Geology and History written by Sir John William Dawson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science of the earth and the history of man, though cultivated by very different classes of specialists and in very different ways, must have their meeting-place. They must indeed not only meet, but overlap and run abreast of each other throughout nearly the whole time occupied by the existence of man on the earth. The geologist, from his point of view, studies all the stratified crust of the earth, down to the mud deposited by last year's river inundations. The historian, aided by the archæologist, has written and monumental evidence carrying him back to the time of the earliest known men, many thousands of years ago. Throughout all this interval the two records must have run more or less parallel to each other, and must be in contact along the whole line. The geologist, ascending from the oldest and lowest portions of the earth's crust, and dealing for millions of years with physical forces and the instinctive powers of animals alone, at length as he approaches the surface finds himself in contact with an entirely new agency, the free-will and conscious action of man. It is true that at first the effects of these are small, and the time in which they have been active is insignificant in comparison with that occupied by previous geological ages; but they introduce new questions which constantly grow in importance, down to those later times in which human agency has so profoundly affected the surface of the earth and its living inhabitants. Finally, the geologist is obliged to have recourse to human observation and testimony for his information respecting those modern causes to which he has to appeal for the explanation of former changes, and has to adduce effects produced by human agency in illustration of, or in contrast with, mutations in the pre-human periods. The historian, on the other hand, finds, as he passes backward into earlier ages, documentary evidence failing him, and much of what he can obtain becoming mythical, vague or uncertain, or difficult of explanation by modern analogies, until at length he is fain to have recourse to the pick-axe and spade, and to endeavour to disinter from the earth the scanty relics of primeval man, much as the geologist searches in the bedded rocks for the fossils which they contain. He has even learned to use for these earliest ages the term prehistoric, and so practically to transfer them to the domain of the archæologist and geologist.

Download or read book A Text book of Geology written by Louis Valentine Pirsson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology and History written by Bernhard von Cotta and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Brief History of Geology written by Kieran D. O'Hara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geology as a science has a fascinating and controversial history. Kieran D. O'Hara's book provides a brief and accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last two hundred years, from early theories of Earth structure during the Reformation, through major controversies over the age of the Earth during the Industrial Revolution, to the more recent twentieth-century development of plate tectonic theory, and on to current ideas concerning the Anthropocene. Most chapters include a short 'text box' providing more technical and detailed elaborations on selected topics. The book also includes a history of the geology of the Moon, a topic not normally included in books on the history of geology. The book will appeal to students of Earth science, researchers in geology who wish to learn more about the history of their subject, and general readers interested in the history of science.

Download or read book The Story of Geology written by Allan Louis Benson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essentials of Earth History written by William Lee Stokes and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1973 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Earth written by Bernhard Kummel and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fossil record; The record of the sedimentary rocks; Precambrian eras; Paleozoic era; North America; World outside North America; Paleozoic life; The mesozoic era; Mesozoic life; Gondwana formations; The cenozoic era; Cenozoic life; Pleistocene epoch; Introduction to animals and plants.

Download or read book Handbuch Der Regionalen Geologie written by Mme Paul Lemoine and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology and Landscape Evolution written by Joseph A. DiPietro and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geology and Landscape Evolution: General Principles Applied to the United States, Second Edition, is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and applications within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology and climatology of the United States. The vast diversity of terrain and landscape across the United States makes this an ideal tool for geoscientists worldwide who research the country’s geological and landscape evolution. The book provides an explanation of how landscape forms, how it evolves and why it looks the way it does. This new edition is fully updated with greater detail throughout and additional figures, maps, drawings and photographs. Rather than limiting the coverage specifically to tectonics or to the origin and evolution of rocks with little regard for the actual landscape beyond general desert, river and glacial features, this book concentrates specifically on the origin of the landscape itself, with specific and exhaustive reference to examples from across the United States. The book begins with a discussion of how rock type and rock structure combine with tectonic activity, climate, isostasy and sea level change to produce landscape and then explores predicting how landscape will evolve. The book goes on to apply those concepts to specific examples throughout the United States, making it a valuable resource for understanding theoretical geological concepts through a practical lens. Presents the complexities of physical geography, geology, geomorphology and climatology of the United States through an interdisciplinary, highly accessible approach Offers hundreds of full-color figures, maps and photographs that capture the systematic interaction of land, rock, rivers, glaciers, global wind patterns and climate, including Google Earth images Provides a thorough assessment of the logic, rationale, and tools required to understand how to interpret landscape and the geological history of the Earth Features exercises that conclude each chapter, aiding in the retention of key concepts Updated with greater detail throughout and additional figures, maps, drawings and photographs Includes additional subheadings so that material is easier to find and digest Includes an all-new chapter on glaciation and expanded exercises using Google Earth images to enhance understanding

Download or read book Outlines of Historical Geology written by Charles Schuchert and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition published in 1924 as part II of the authors' Introductory geology.