Book ID: CBB000201240

The Earth Inside and Out: Some Major Contributions to Geology in the Twentieth Century (2002)

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Oldroyd, David Roger (Editor)


Geological Society Publishing House


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: vi + 369 pp., illus., tables, graphs, index
Language: English

Description Contents: David *Oldroyd, Introduction: Writing about Twentieth Century Geology; Ursula B. *Marvin, Geology: From an Earth to a Planetary Science in the Twentieth Century; Richard J. *Howarth, From Graphical Display to Dynamic Model: Mathematical Geology in the Earth Sciences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Davis A. *Young, Norman Levi Bowen (1887--1956) and Igneous Rock Diversity; Jacques L. R. *Touret, Timi G. *Nijand, Metamorohism Today: New Science, Old Problems; Bernhard *Fritscher, Metamorphism and Thermodynamics: The Formative Years; Cherry L. E. *Lewis, Arthur Holms' Unifying Theory: From Radioactivity to Continental Drift; Victor E. *Khain, Anatoly G. *Ryabukhin, Russian Geology and the Plate Tectonics Revolution; Homer *Le Grand, Plate Tectonics, Terranes and Continental Geolgy; Cathy *Barton, Marie Tharp, Oceanographic Cartographer, and Her Contributions to the Revolution in the Earth science; Gregory A. *Good, From Terrestial Magnetism to Geomagnetism: Disciplinary Transformation in the Twentieth Century; Eugen *Seibold, Isle *Seibold, Sedimentology: From Single Grains to Recent and Past Environments: Some Trends in Sedimentolgy in the Twentieth Century; Hugh S. *Torrens, Some Personal Thoughts on Stratigraphic Precision in the Twentieth Century; Willaim A. S. *Sarjeant, As Chimney-sweepers, Come to Durst': A History of Playntology to 1970; Simon J. *Knell, Collecting, Coservation and Conservatism: Late Twentieth Century Developments in the Culture of British Geology.


Reviewed By

Review Hamilton, Warren B. (2003) Review of "The Earth Inside and Out: Some Major Contributions to Geology in the Twentieth Century". Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society (p. 99). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Khain, Victor E.; Ryabukhin, Anatoly G. (2002) Russian Geology and the Plate Tectonics Revolution. In: The Earth Inside and Out: Some Major Contributions to Geology in the Twentieth Century (p. 199). unapi

Chapter Barton, Cathy (2002) Marie Tharp, Oceanographic Cartographer, and Her Contributions to the Revolution in the Earth Sciences. In: The Earth Inside and Out: Some Major Contributions to Geology in the Twentieth Century (p. 215). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Young, Davis A.
Oreskes, Naomi
Leyla M. Farkhutdinova
Anvar M. Farkhutdinov
Iskhak M. Farkhutdinov
Bento Cavadas
Concepts
Geology
Earth sciences
Plate tectonics and continental drift
Geophysics
Oceanography
Geomagnetism
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
England
Greenland
Romania
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