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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

THE geology of New Zealand is of exceptional variety and interest. The literature is very scattered, and the valuable reports published by the Geological Survey and Mines Department of New Zealand are ...

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