A brief history of geology /

O'Hara, Kieran D.,

A brief history of geology / Kieran D. O'Hara, University of Kentucky. - New Delhi: Cambridge, 2018. - XI, 262 pages : illustraties ; 24 cm.

1. Major nineteenth-century players; 2. Towards a geologic time scale ; 3. A vestige of a beginning: the age of the Earth; 4. The origin of Igneous rocks; 5. Tectonics in crisis; 6. Continental drift; 7. Plate tectonics ; 8. Isotope and trace element geology; 9. Ice ages and ice cores; 10. Geology and evolution of the Moon; 11. Welcome to the anthropocene: a man-made epoch? 12. The structure of geological revolutions

9781107176188 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781316628294 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Geology -- History.
Geologists -- Biography.
Geologie.
Geologists.

551.09 / OHA

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