Mysteries of the deep : how seafloor drilling expeditions revolutionized our understanding of earth history

Author(s)

• Powell, James Lawrence

Bibliographic Information

Mysteries of the deep : how seafloor drilling expeditions revolutionized our understanding of earth history

James Lawrence Powell

MIT Press, c2024

• : hardcover

Note

Summary on USMARC: "This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction
• The voyage of HMS Challenger
• Coral reefs : rainforests of the sea
• Probing the seafloor
• Nothing beats a map
• Do seafloors spread and continents drift?
• Continental drift to plate tectonics
• Hotspots in the mantle
• When the Mediterranean dried up
• The glacial theory
• The astronomical pacemaker
• Astrochronology
• Crater of doom
• The hot, deep biosphere
• The seventh continent
• Eocene doomsday
• Human evolution
• Looking back and ahead

Details

• NCID: BD04346330
• ISBN:
  • 9780262048927
• LCCN: 2023017995
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 274 p., [2] p. of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QE39
  • DC23 : 551.46/8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Submarine geology
  • LCSH : Oceanography
  • LCSH : Ocean bottom
  • LCSH : Geology -- Research