This book provides insights into the evolution of geological ideas in Ireland; gives assessments of underrepresented scientists; and offers an appreciation of the value of geological collections for historical research....Loe edasi...
Recent biodiversity studies, reported here for the first time, have shown that the molluscan fauna of the Gulf of Mexico is far richer and more complex than previously thought. These species are illustrated here on 132 color plates and discussed in...Loe edasi...
The Connemara region in Western Ireland is world-renowned for its outstanding geology and spectacular landscapes. This book and its many colorful illustrations, maps, diagrams, field, and landscape images, detail the origin and formation of Connemar...Loe edasi...
Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, Bucklands Treatise envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation....Loe edasi...
Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, Bucklands Treatise envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation....Loe edasi...
The motivation for this volume came from the idea that the Precambrian is the key, both to the present, and to the understanding of the Earth as a whole. The Precambrian constitutes about 85 of Eartha s history, and of that, about 3. 75 billion yea...Loe edasi...
The term plate tectonics, coined only thirty-five years ago, is now part of everyones understanding of the way the earth works. The theory, research, data collection, and analysis that came together in 1967 to constitute plate tectonics is here p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2000, Kirjastus: Institute of Physics Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780429082566)
Presents an account of the impressions Western culture made on Constantin Roman as a young researcher from behind the Iron Curtain as a personal history of the developing science of plate tectonics. This book elucidates the authors struggles agains...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-1997, Kirjastus: A A Balkema Publishers, ISBN-13: 9780203751855)
Examines the structural evolution of the Earths crust from the Triassic period to the present. The book describes the patterns of distribution, and the composition and accumulation conditions of formations in the various geological periods in all.....Loe edasi...
This updated edition includes an appendix of criteria for the identification of ichnotaxa and covers all aspects of tiering, trace fossil diversity and ichnoguilds....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-1996, Kirjastus: A A Balkema Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781003077879)
These papers show how new research in the classic areas and Germany, but particularly in Eastern Europe, is radically altering views of the stratigraphy and palaeocology of the early-middle Pleistocene period, showing that major glaciations did no.....Loe edasi...
