Article ID: CBB000080180

Impacts issue: Rocks from space? (1998)

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Description Special issue. Contents: Taylor, Kenneth L.: Earth and heaven, 1750-1800: Enlightenment ideas about the relevance to geology of extraterrestrial operations and events. Schultz, Peter H.: Shooting the moon: Understanding the history of lunar impact theories. Greene, Mott T.: Alfred Wegener and the origin of lunar craters. Bourgeois, Joanne, Koppes, Steven: Robert S. Dietz and the recognition of impact structures on Earth. D'Hondt, Steven: Theories of terrestrial mass extinction by extraterrestrial objects. Torrens, H.S.: “No Impact”: René Gallant (1906-1985) and his book of 1964 Bombarded Earth: An Essay on the Geological and Biological Effects of Huge Meteorite Impacts. Glen, William: A manifold current upheaval in science.


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Authors & Contributors
Martin Schneider
Wutzke, Ulrich
Schwarzbach, Martin
Wood, Robert Muir
Weber, Erik
Šešelja, Dunja
Journals
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific American
New Scientist
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
History of European Ideas
Publishers
Reimer
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft
Science Tech
Perthes
Brockhaus
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Plate tectonics and continental drift
Geology
Biographies
Historical geology; theory of the earth
Geomagnetism
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
People
Wegener, Alfred Lothar
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois
Taylor, Frank Bursley
Gallant, René
Dietz, Robert Sinclair
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Germany
Greenland
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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