Patrick Wyse Jackson: The Chronologers' Quest

Cover: 9781108462532 | The Chronologers' Quest | Patrick Wyse Jackson | Taschenbuch | 2018

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Beschreibung

Investigates the methods used to determine the Earth's age from those with little scientific background to scientists in Earth sciences.

Über den Autor

Patrick Wyse Jackson is a lecturer in Geology and curator of the Geological Museum in Trinity College, Dublin, and is a member of the International Commission on the History of Geology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The ancients: early chronologies; 2. Biblical calculations; 3. Models of Aristolean infinity and sacred theories of the Earth; 4. Falling stones, salty oceans, and evaporating waters: early empirical measurements of the age of the Earth; 5. Thinking in layers: early ideas in stratigraphy; 6. An infinite and cyclical Earth and religious orthodoxy; 7. The cooling Earth; 8. Stratigraphic laws, uniformitarianism and the development of the geological column; 9. 'Formed stones' and their subsequent role in biostratigraphy and evolutionary theory; 10. The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments; 11. Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth revisited; 12. Oceanic salination reconsidered; 13. Radioactivity: invisible geochronometers; 14. The universal problem and duck soup; Sources; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781108462532
ISBN-10:	1108462537
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Jackson, Patrick Wyse
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Wyse Jackson
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.03.2018
Gewicht:	0,452 kg