Ch. 1. The Dynamic and Evolving Earth -- ch. 2. Earth Materials: Minerals and Rocks -- ch. 3. Plate Tectonics: A Unifying Theory -- ch. 4. Geologic Time: Concepts and ...

Science in the silver age: Aetna, a classical theory of volcanic activity -- Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic influences on mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Mechanical mineralogy -- ...

IN their differences these two books bring out very clearly the difficulties that beset the teacher of historical geology (stratigraphy) to-day. An ever-increasing knowledge of the detail of local ...

Boulder, CO, USA – Jerusalem's geology has been crucial in molding it into one of the most religiously important cities on the planet, according to a new study. It started in the year 1000 BCE, when ...

No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...

THIS little book is partly based on Portlock's “Rudiments of Geology,”and “is set forth in the full belief that it will be found to be an epitome of the history of the British Stratified Rocks.” The ...

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