Mayo, Dwight Eugene (Contributor)
Drake, Ellen Tan (Editor)
Jordan, William M. (Editor)
Geological Society of America
Physical Details: x + 525 pp.; illus.; notes; index
Description Contents: Mayo, Dwight E.: Mountain-building theory: The 19th-century origins of isostasy and the geosyncline. Faill, Roger T.: Evolving tectonic concepts of the central and southern Appalachians. Hsü, Kenneth J.: A basement of melanges: A personal account of the circumstances leading to the breakthrough in Franciscan research. Drake, Ellen T.: The Coon Butte Crater controversy. Morisawa, Marie: Development of quantitative geomorphology. Watson, Richard A., White, William B.: The history of American theories of cave origin. Totten, Stanley M., White, George W.: Glacial geology and the North American craton: Significant concepts and contributions of the 19th century. Wilson, J. Tuzo: Development of ideas about the Canadian Shield: A personal account. Cloud, Preston: Vestiges of a beginning. Dott, Robert H., Jr.: James Hall's discovery of the craton. Merk, George: E. O. Ulrich's impact on American stratigraphy. Prior, Jean C., Milligan, Carolyn F.: The Iowa landscapes of Orestes St. John. Hansen, William B.: Dust in the wind: J. A. Udden's turn-of-the-century research at Augustana. Brice, William R.: Ralph Stockmann Tarr: Scientist, writer, teacher. Brooks, C. K.: L. R. Wager and the geology of East Greenland. Crausaz, Winston: Dr. Atl: Pioneer Mexican volcanologist. Todd, Ruth: Joseph A. Cushman and the study of Foraminifera. Laporte, Léo F.: Wrong for the right reasons: G. G. Simpson and continental drift. Kupsch, W. O.: Surveying the geology of a vast, empty, cold country. Dutro, J. Thomas, Jr.: The G. William Holmes Research Station, Lake Peters, northeastern Alaska, and its impact on northern research. Brattain, Ross R.: Notes of a packer in the Idaho-Montana line survey, summer of 1899. Oakeshott, Gordon B.: Contributions of the state geological surveys: California as a case history. Yochelson, Ellis L.: The role and development of the Smithsonian Institution in the American geological community. Skinner, Brian J., Narendra, Barbara L.: Rummaging through the attic; or, A brief history of the geological sciences a Yale. Faul, Carol: A history of geology at the University of Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin and the rest. Shor, Elizabeth N.: A chronology from Mohole to JOIDES. John Verhoogen: North American paleomagnetism and geology. Gifford, John A., Rapp, George, Jr.: The early development of archaeological geology in North America. Galey, John T.: The anticlinal theory of oil and gas accumulation. Jordan, William M.: Application as stimulus in geology: Some examples from the early years of the Geological Society of America. Pakiser, L. C.: Seismic exploration of the crust and upper mantle of the Basin and Range province. Bolt, Bruce A.: The development of earthquake seismology in the western United States. Lowman, Paul D., Jr.: Geology from space: A brief history of orbital remote sensing.
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