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TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 INTRODUCTION......Page 11 CHAPTER 1 EVOLUTION OF THE GEOLOGIC SCIENCES......Page 20 THE DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES......Page 21 ORIGINS IN PREHISTORIC TIMES......Page 22 KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE......Page 23 KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH HISTORY......Page 24 FOSSILS......Page 26 KNOWLEDGE OF LANDFORMS AND OF LAND-SEA RELATIONS......Page 27 THE 16TH–18TH CENTURIES......Page 28 ORE DEPOSITS AND MINERALOGY......Page 29 PALEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY......Page 30 EARTH HISTORY ACCORDING TO WERNER AND JAMES HUTTON......Page 31 CATASTROPHISM AND UNIFORMITARIANISM......Page 32 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF MINERALS AND ROCKS......Page 33 WILLIAM SMITH AND FAUNAL SUCCESSION......Page 34 LOUIS AGASSIZ AND THE ICE AGE......Page 36 ERRATICS......Page 37 GEOLOGIC TIME AND THE AGE OF EARTH......Page 38 CONCEPTS OF LANDFORM EVOLUTION......Page 39 GRAVITY, ISOSTASY, AND EARTH’S FIGURE......Page 40 THE 20TH CENTURY......Page 41 ISOSTASY......Page 42 RADIOMETRIC DATING......Page 43 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ROCKS......Page 45 THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ROCKS AND MINERALS......Page 47 MICROPALEONTOLOGY......Page 48 SEISMOLOGY

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Author
John P. Rafferty (editor)
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing, Rosen Educational Services
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781615304950
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Physics, Geology

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