Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology

Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology
ISBN-10
0674883829
ISBN-13
9780674883826
Category
Science
Pages
410
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
David Roger Oldroyd

Description

Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.

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