An edition of Earth cycles (2006)

Earth cycles

a historical perspective

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Earth cycles
D. R. Oldroyd, D. R. Oldroyd
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Greenwood Press
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Pages
234

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Subjects

Geology, Periodicity, Geological time, Cycles, Philosophy

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Earth cycles: a historical perspective
2006, Greenwood Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: thinking in cycles
Ideas of geocycles from the ancient world to the renaissance
Straightforward thinking about the earth
Robert Hooke and the first testable-in-principle theory of geological cycles
The founder of geology? James Hutton and the geostrophic cycle, and a French cyclist
Charles Lyell: an earth always changing but ever the same
Cycling in the landscape
Mountains, basins, and sediments
The earth, the solar system, cycles, and glaciation
Cycles in the strata: cyclothems
Sequence stratigraphy and eustasy
The geomagnetic timescale and related matters
Geochemical cycling
Themes and variations.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-224) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.

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Westport, Conn
Series
Greenwood guides to great ideas in science, Greenwood guides to great ideas in science

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Dewey Decimal Class
551
Library of Congress
QE33.2.P47 O63 2006eb

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Pagination
xiv, 234 pages
Number of pages
234

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Open Library
OL44931864M
ISBN 10
031302734X
ISBN 13
9780313027345
OCLC/WorldCat
227372987

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