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Shows The Importance Of The History Of Geological Cycles For Understanding Earth Sciences Today.--jacket. Introduction: Thinking In Cycles -- Ideas Of Geocycles From The Ancient World To The Renaissance -- Straightforward Thinking About The Earth -- Robert Hooke And The First Testable-in-principle Theory Of Geological Cycles -- The Founder Of Geology? James Hutton And The Geostrophic Cycle, And A French Cyclist -- Charles Lyell: An Earth Always Changing But Ever The Same -- Cycling In The Landscape -- Mountains, Basins, And Sediments -- The Earth, The Solar System, Cycles, And Glaciation -- Cycles In The Strata: Cyclothems -- Sequence Stratigraphy And Eustasy -- The Geomagnetic Timescale And Related Matters -- Geochemical Cycling -- Themes And Variations. David Oldroyd. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [203]-224) And Index.

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Author

David Roger Oldroyd

Publisher

Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313027345

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, History