The Dating Game
The Dating Game

Author: Cherry Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1107394694

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the Earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. When it was deeply unfashionable to do so in the early twentieth century, he spent many years trying to prove the great antiquity of the Earth, stating that it was 'perhaps a little indelicate to ask of our Mother Earth her age, but science acknowledges no shame'. Both fascinating and touching, this book appeals to a broad readership of both geologists and science enthusiasts.

Continental Drift: the Evolution of a Concept
Continental Drift: the Evolution of a Concept

Author: Ursula B. Marvin

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Traces the changing theories about continental drift due to the advances in seismology and experimental studies of the behavior of rocks under high pressure. Continental stability was the prevailing scientific view until the late 1960s, when geologists throughout the world became convinced that crustal plates, both continental and oceanic, have moved over many degrees of latitude and longitude since the Cretaceous period.