Historical geology books

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The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 4, Evolution into Plate Tectonics

The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 4, Evolution...

Author: Henry R. Frankel (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
ISBN: 9781139095938
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This fourth volume of The Continental Drift Controversy explains the discoveries in the mid 1960s which led to the...  Read More >>

Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains

Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains

Author: Michael R. W. Johnson (Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh) ,  Simon L. Harley (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781139023924
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Providing a valuable introduction to the processes that form mountain belts, this book summarises research in this...  Read More >>

Structural Geology: An Introduction to Geometrical Techniques

Structural Geology: An Introduction to Geometrical Techniques...

Author: Donal M. Ragan (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9780511816109
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This volume, a combination of undergraduate text and lab book, provides students with a step-by-step guide to solving...  Read More >>

Rock Fractures in Geological Processes

Rock Fractures in Geological Processes

Author: Agust Gudmundsson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9780511975684
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This book investigates fracture processes and fluid transport in the crust. Building from basic concepts, and illustrated...  Read More >>

Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming

Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming

Author: Michael E. Mann ,  Lee R. Kump
ISBN: 9780136044352
Format: Paperback
$78.67

For any science or social science course in need of a basic understanding of IPCC reports. Periodic reports from...  Read More >>

The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 1, Wegener and the Early Debate

The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 1, Wegener...

Author: Henry R. Frankel (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
ISBN: 9780511842368
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This first volume of The Continental Drift Controversy covers the period in the early 1900s when Wegener first identified...  Read More >>

Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions: From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding...

Author: Francoise Vimeux ,  Florence Sylvestre
ISBN: 9789400730519
Format: Paperback
$318.26

South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude...  Read More >>

Sedimentation History in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas for the Last 130 kyr

Sedimentation History in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic...

Author: M. A. Levitan ,  Yu A. Lavrushin
ISBN: 9783642269073
Format: Paperback
$336.35

The main objects under consideration are marine basins of the West Subarctic (Iceland, Norwegian, and Greenland...  Read More >>

Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water

Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental...

Author: Krisztina Buczkó ,  János Korponai
ISBN: 9789400730410
Format: Paperback
$336.35

The volume starts with a review on late Quaternary records form the Carpathian region, followed by new results on...  Read More >>

Active tectonics of the Hellenic subduction zone

Active tectonics of the Hellenic subduction zone

Author: Beth Shaw
ISBN: 9783642208034
Format: Hardback
$340.56

The author shows that the resulting tsunami would have the characteristics described by ancient writers, and uses...  Read More >>

Bibliografia del Vesuvio: Compilata e Corredata di Note Critiche Estratte dai Più Autorevoli Scrittori Vesuviani

Bibliografia del Vesuvio: Compilata e Corredata di Note...

Author: Federigo Furchheim
ISBN: 9781139013376
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This comprehensive bibliography of publications relating to Mount Vesuvius first appeared in 1897. As well as scientific...  Read More >>

Tectonics of Suspect Terranes: Mountain building and continental growth

Tectonics of Suspect Terranes: Mountain building and...

Author: D. G. Howell
ISBN: 9789401068581
Format: Paperback
$197.94

Year by year the Earth sciences grow more diverse, with an inevitable increase in the degree to which rampant specialization...  Read More >>

Gable

Gable

Author: Malcolm Craig
ISBN: 9781850588993
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Great Gable is considered to be somewhat special. This is a personal view of one Lake District mountain and its...  Read More >>

Geology of the Jurassic Coast: The Isle of Purbeck - Weymouth to Studland

Geology of the Jurassic Coast: The Isle of Purbeck -...

Author: Paul Ensom ,  Malcolm Turnbull
ISBN: 9781907701009
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Geology of the Jurassic Coast: The Isle of Purbeck is an entirely new, visually stunning, and informative reference...  Read More >>

The Paleogene and Neogene of Western Iberia (Portugal): A Cenozoic record in the European Atlantic domain

The Paleogene and Neogene of Western Iberia (Portugal):...

Author: João Pais
ISBN: 9783642224003
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This volume includes a general description of the Portuguese Cenozoic basins in the Iberian tectonic context. Correlations...  Read More >>

The Tectonics of China: Data, Maps and Evolution

The Tectonics of China: Data, Maps and Evolution

Author: Tianfeng Wan
ISBN: 9783642118661
Format: Hardback
$578.16

"""The Tectonics of China: Data, Maps and Evolution"" presents the regional geological and petroleum surveys of...  Read More >>

Travels through Norway and Lapland during the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808

Travels through Norway and Lapland during the Years...

Author: Leopold von Buch ,  John Black
ISBN: 9780511994982
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Leopold von Buch (1774–1853) was a German scientist who travelled to Scandinavia in 1806–1808 to research the region's...  Read More >>

Anticipatory History

Anticipatory History

Author: Caitlin DeSilvey ,  Simon Naylor
ISBN: 9780956855923
Format: Paperback
$23.29

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The Formation and Evolution of Africa: A Synopsis of 3.8 Ga of Earth History

The Formation and Evolution of Africa: A Synopsis of...

Author: D. J. J. van Hinsbergen ,  S. J. H. Buiter
ISBN: 9781862393356
Format: Hardback
$310.50

The African continent preserves a long geological record that covers almost 75% of Earth's history. The Pan-African...  Read More >>

Arc-Continent Collision

Arc-Continent Collision

Author: Dennis Brown ,  Paul D. Ryan
ISBN: 9783540885573
Format: Hardback
$736.56

Arc-continent collision has been one of the important tectonic processes in the formation of mountain belts throughout...  Read More >>

A Comparative View of the Huttonian and Neptunian Systems of Geology: In Answer to the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth, by Professor Playfair

A Comparative View of the Huttonian and Neptunian Systems...

Author: John Murray
ISBN: 9780511973093
Format: Undefined
$224.40

John Murray (1778–1820) was a public lecturer and prolific writer on chemistry and geology. This popular volume,...  Read More >>

Etna: A History of the Mountain and its Eruptions

Etna: A History of the Mountain and its Eruptions

Author: G. F. Rodwell
ISBN: 9780511984419
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The year before this work of 1878 was published, the author, G. F. Rodwell (1843–1905) had climbed Mount Etna and...  Read More >>

Narrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus and to Mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834

Narrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus and...

Author: Charles Daubeny
ISBN: 9780511996986
Format: Undefined
$224.40

A brief but distinctive account, first published in 1835, of a winter expedition to a then little-visited volcanic...  Read More >>

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