Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences : From Heresy to Truth

Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scien...
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Powell, James Lawrence - 1936- [verfasserIn]

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E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

New York, NY: Columbia University Press ; 2014

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Schlagwörter:

Geowissenschaften / Entwicklung

Schlagwörter:

Geology, History

Geological time

Continental drift

Meteoritic hypothesis

Global warming

Geology.

Continental drift.

Geological time.

Geosciences, other.

Geosciences.

Geowissenschaften.

Global warming.

Meteoritic hypothesis.

Science.

SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General

Umfang:

1 online resource(384 p.)

Reproduktion:

2014

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ISBN:

978-0-231-53845-9

DOI / URN:

10.7312/powe16448

Katalog-ID:

834636859

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