A brief history of geology / by Kieran D. O'Hara.
Approximately 200 years of the history of the development of the study of geology.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Major nineteenth-century players
- Toward a geologic time scale
- A vestige of a beginning : the age of the earth
- The origin of igneous rocks
- Tectonics in crisis
- Continental drift
- Plate tectonics
- Isotope and trace element geology
- Ice ages and ice cores
- Geology and evolution of the moon
- Welcome to the Anthropocene : a man-made epoch?
- The structure of geological revolutions.