Great geological controversies

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Great geological controversies

A. Hallam

(Oxford science publications)

Oxford University Press, 1989

2nd ed

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This second edition of the author's account of celebrated controversies in geology embraces many of the important ideas that have emerged since the birth of the subject. The two new chapters are on the emergence of stratigraphy in the 19th century and on the mass extinctions controversy.

Table of Contents

  • Neptunists, vulcanists and plutonists
  • catastrophic and uniformitarians
  • the emergence of stratigraphy
  • the Ice Age
  • the age of the earth
  • continental drift
  • mass extinctions
  • general considerations.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA1050406X
  • ISBN
    • 0198582188
    • 0198582196
  • LCCN
    89036991
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 244 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Classification
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