Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.

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Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2006.
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245 1 0 |a Earth cycles :  |b a historical perspective /  |c David Oldroyd. 
260 |a Westport, Conn. :  |b Greenwood Press,  |c c2006. 
300 |a xiv, 234 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 27 cm. 
440 0 |a Greenwood guides to great ideas in science 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Thinking in cycles -- Ideas of geocycles from the ancient world to the renaissance -- Straight-forward thinking about the earth -- Robert Hooke and the first testable-in-principle theory of geological cycles -- The founder of geology? James Hutton and the geostrophic cycle and a French cyclist -- Charles Lyell: an earth always changing but ever the same -- Cycling in the landscape -- Mountains and basins -- The earth, the solar system, cycles, and glaciation -- Cycles in the strata: cyclothems -- Sequence stratigraphy and eustasy -- The geomagnetic cycle -- Geochemical cycling -- Themes and variations. 
650 0 |a Geology  |x Periodicity. 
650 0 |a Geological time. 
650 0 |a Cycles. 
650 0 |a Geology  |x Philosophy. 
991 |a 2006-08-25 
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