Thinking about the Earth

Thinking about the Earth
Author: David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1996
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780674883826


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Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.