The New Science of Geology

The New Science of Geology
Author: Martin J.S. Rudwick
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2023-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 100094168X

The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted around the idea that the natural world had its own history. The earth had to be understood not only in relation to unchanging natural laws that could be observed in action in the present, but also in terms of a pre-human past that could be reliably known, even if not directly observable and its traces only fragmentarily preserved. In contrast to this radically novel sense of nature's own contingent history, the earth's unimaginably vast timescale was already taken for granted by many naturalists (though not yet by the wider public), and the concurrent development of biblical scholarship precluded any significant sense of conflict with religious tradition. A companion volume, Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform, was published in 2005.

000-899

000-899
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1004
Release: 1908
Genre: Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN:

Heroes of science : Botanists, zoologists, and geologists

Heroes of science : Botanists, zoologists, and geologists
Author: P. Martin Duncan
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Heroes of science : Botanists, zoologists, and geologists" by P. Martin Duncan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach

The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach
Author: Cecilio Quesada
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2019-05-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3030109313

Adopting a global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective. Owing to its location close to successive plate margins, Iberia has played a pivotal role in the geodynamic evolution of the Gondwanan, Rheic, Pangea, Tethys and Eurasian plates over the last 600 Ma of Earth’s history. The geological record starts with the amalgamation of Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic, which was succeeded by the rifting and spreading of the Rheic ocean; its demise, which led to the amalgamation of Pangea in the late Paleozoic; and the rifting and spreading of several arms of the Neotethys ocean in the Mesozoic Era and their ongoing closure, which was responsible for the Alpine orogeny. The significant advances in the last 20 years have increasingly attracted international interest in exploring the geology of the Iberian Peninsula. This final volume of the Geology of Iberia focuses on the active geological processes in Iberia including seismicity and active faulting as well as the modern landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula.