Ch. 1. The Dynamic and Evolving Earth -- ch. 2. Earth Materials: Minerals and Rocks -- ch. 3. Plate Tectonics: A Unifying Theory -- ch. 4. Geologic Time: Concepts and ...
Science in the silver age: Aetna, a classical theory of volcanic activity -- Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic influences on mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Mechanical mineralogy -- ...
AMONG works dealing with stratigraphical or historical geology, Dr. E. Kayser's “Lehrbuch der geologischen Formationskunde” holds a deservedly high place. The account given in this work of the several ...
DR. WELLS'S new book, although essentially a text-book of stratigraphy, is something more than a formal descriptive catalogue of the various divisions and subdivisions of the geological column. It is ...
No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...
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Canna, by Robin Rhode. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York City, Seoul, and London The world’s largest known clifftop boulder, the 1,300­-ton Maka Lahi (“Big Rock”) in Tonga,… ...