عنوان

The web of geological sciences :

(Number (ISBN

0813725003 (pbk.)

(Number (ISBN

9780813725000 (pbk.)

Number

b415589

Title Proper

The web of geological sciences :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

advances, impacts, and interactions /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Marion E. Bickford

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

v, 611 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some colored) ;

Dimensions

28 cm

Series Title

Special paper / Geological Society of America,

Volume Designation

500

ISSN of Series

0072-1077 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

Plates, planets, and phase changes: 50 years of petrology -- From Kilauea Iki 1959 to Eyjafjallajökull 2010: How volcanology has changed! -- A perspective on the emergence of modern structural geology: Celebrating the feedbacks between historical-based and process-based approaches -- Major advances in siliciclastic sedimentary geology, 1960-2012 -- Sophisticated stratigraphy -- From paleontology to paleobiology: A half-century of progress in understanding life history -- From layer cake to complexity: 50 years of geophysical investigations of the earth -- Smaller, better, more: five decades of advances in geochemistry -- The geochronology revolution -- Tectonics: 50 years after the revolution -- The time scales of continental rifting: Implications for global processes -- Space geodesy: a revolution in crustal deformation measurements of tectonic processes -- Whole earth geohydrologic cycle, from the clouds to the core: The distribution of water in the dynamic earth system -- Seminal advances in hydrogeology, 1963 to 2013: The O.E. Meinzer Award legacy -- Strongly dust-influenced soils and what they tell us about landscape dynamics in vegetated aridlands of the southwestern United States -- A new way of thinking: revolutions in paleoclimatology in the last 50 years -- The evolution of geobiology in the context of living stromatolites -- Role of geobiology in the astrobiological exploration of the solar system -- Geoinformatics: Toward an integrative view of Earth as a system

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Text of Note

"This volume covers many of the important advances in the geological sciences from 1963 to 2013. These advances include understanding plate tectonics, exploration of the Moon and Mars, development of new computing and analytical technologies, understanding of the role of microbiology in geologic processes, and many others"--Provided by publisher

Geology

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Bickford, M. E., (Marion Eugene),1932-

Date of Transaction

20131114011830.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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