Earth cycles : a historical perspective / David Oldroyd.
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
