Great geological controversies
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Great geological controversies
（Oxford science publications）
Oxford University Press, 1989
2nd ed
- : pbk.
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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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