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‘Full of wonder and forensic intelligence’ Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.
The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet.
Covers 400 million years of physical evolution, tracing the volcanic activity, the folding and building of mountains, the breaking of blocks along fault lines, and the work of erosion and glaciers that have created a dramatic landscape in Sierra Nevada and the adjacent lands.
Tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of... Læs mere
Examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating - the best known of these methods - and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the... Læs mere
This fourth volume of The Continental Drift Controversy explains the discoveries in the mid 1960s which led to the rapid acceptance of seafloor spreading theory and how... Læs mere
This book presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment... Læs mere
Analysis of Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia's Altai Mountains begins to explain the rhythm of... Læs mere
This second volume of The Continental Drift Controversy describes the growing paleomagnetic case for continental drift in the 1950s and the development of apparent polar... Læs mere