Author:
Oldroyd, D. R. (David Roger)
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Descriptionxiv, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Note:Introduction: thinking in cycles. - Ideas of geocycles from the ancient world to the renaissance. - Straightforward 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, basins, and sediments. - The earth, the solar system, cycles, and glaciation. - Cycles in the strata: cyclothems. - Sequence stratigraphy and eustasy. - The geomagnetic timescale and related matters. - Geochemical cycling. - Themes and variations.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-224) and index.
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