Great Geological Controversies
A. Hallam(Author)
Oxford University Press
2nd Edition
Published in January 1990
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-19-858218-2 (ISBN)
Description
This second edition of the author's account of celebrated controversies in geology embraces many of the important ideas that have emerged since the birth of the subject. The two new chapters are on the emergence of stratigraphy in the 19th century and on the mass extinctions controversy.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-858218-2 (9780198582182)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Author
Lapworth Professor of Geology, School of Earth SciencesLapworth Professor of Geology, School of Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham
Content
Neptunists, vulcanists and plutonists; catastrophic and uniformitarians; the emergence of stratigraphy; the Ice Age; the age of the earth; continental drift; mass extinctions; general considerations.