عنوان

The large wavelength deformations of the lithosphere :

(Number (ISBN

0813711967

(Number (ISBN

9780813711966

Number

b523388

Title Proper

The large wavelength deformations of the lithosphere :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

materials for a history of the evolution of thought from the earliest times to plate tectonics /

First Statement of Responsibility

A.M.C. Şengör and Avrasya Yerbilimleri Enstitüsü

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boulder, Colo. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Geological Society of America,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2003

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 347 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps (some color) ;

Dimensions

29 cm

Series Title

Memoir ;

Volume Designation

196

Text of Note

3 fold map in pocket

Text of Note

Includes index

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-296) and index

Text of Note

Flooding and desiccation: earliest records and interpretations -- Two kinds of movement caused by the earth's interior at its surface: Plato and his students -- The middle ages: Jean Buridan and his pseudo-isostasy -- The Renaissance: persistence of the antique and medieval models in tectonics -- The dawn of modern geology: Descartes, Varenius, Steno, Hooke, and the two kinds of deformation of the earth's rocky rind -- Scandinavia: falcogeny in action? -- Kinds of uplift in a Huttonian world and the foreplay to the craters of elevation theory -- Leopold Von Buch and the development of the theory of craters of elevation: elevation and subsidence in the post-Huttonian world -- Time of transition from "radical theories" to "tangential theories" -- The reinvention and christening of the concept of geosyncline in America -- The exploration of the American west: falcogeny in the plateau country -- Eduard Suess and his contemporaries: the uplift controversy -- Falcogenic and copeogenic events in the twentieth century -- J. Tuzo Wilson and the mantle plumes

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Epeirogeny-- History

Geodynamics

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Edition

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Şengör, A. M. Celâl

Date of Transaction

20160712072241.0

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[Book]

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