To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Earth System Sciences

Breakthroughs in Geology Ideas That Transformed Earth Science

By: Graham Park(Author)
262 pages, 120 colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations
Breakthroughs in Geology
Click to have a closer look
  • Breakthroughs in Geology ISBN: 9781780460765 Hardback Nov 2019 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks
    £40.00
    #248115
Price: £40.00
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles

About this book

Geological research does not flow steadily onwards by means of small incremental advances but can be better understood as a series of significant discoveries or changes in interpretation that transformed the way we understand the Earth. Each of these changes or new ideas encouraged a burst of activity as researchers attempted to apply them more widely in order to test their universality, and thereby their validity as a scientific theory.

Probably the best example of such a transformative idea is Plate Tectonics, which, although questioned at the time it was introduced, is now universally accepted as a general principleA large number of the subsequent advances in geological understanding have been based upon this breakthrough. Each of the 12 chapters in this book represents a new idea or discovery, which is discussed in its historical context. In each case the salient features of these ideas are described, together with some biographical details of the individual scientists credited with them but also mentioning others whose role in the generation of the idea is perhaps not so obvious.

Of instant appeal to geologists and other earth scientists interested in how their science evolved over time by means of a number of revolutionary ideas, this book also serves as a paradigm for the history of science across many disciplines.

Contents

Introduction
Preface and acknowledgements

1 Uniformitarianism: the first breakthrough
2 Evolution and the Origin of Species
3 Continental drift
4 Mantle convection: a mechanism for Continental Drift?
5 Deformation ellipsoid to ductile shear zone
6 Plate tectonics
7 Ophiolites
8 Fault kinematics
9 Back-arc basins and trench roll-back
10 Hot spots and mantle plumes
11 Sequence stratigraphy
12 Gravity spreading

Glossary
References
Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Graham Park is Emeritus Professor of Tectonic Geology at the University of Keele. He is the author of the best-selling Introducing Geology, The Making of Europe: A Geological History and Mountains: The Origins of the Earth's Mountain Systems also published by Dunedin Academic Press.

By: Graham Park(Author)
262 pages, 120 colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides