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" The large wavelength deformations of the lithosphere : "
A.M.C. Şengör and Avrasya Yerbilimleri Enstitüsü
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BL
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701199
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b523388
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| Main Entry
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Şengör, A. M. Celâl
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The large wavelength deformations of the lithosphere : : materials for a history of the evolution of thought from the earliest times to plate tectonics /\ A.M.C. Şengör and Avrasya Yerbilimleri Enstitüsü
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| Publication Statement
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Boulder, Colo. :: Geological Society of America,, 2003
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| Series Statement
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Memoir ;; 196
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xvii, 347 pages :: illustrations, maps (some color) ;; 29 cm
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0813711967
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: 9780813711966
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3 fold map in pocket
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Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-296) and index
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| Contents
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Flooding and desiccation: earliest records and interpretations -- Two kinds of movement caused by the earth's interior at its surface: Plato and his students -- The middle ages: Jean Buridan and his pseudo-isostasy -- The Renaissance: persistence of the antique and medieval models in tectonics -- The dawn of modern geology: Descartes, Varenius, Steno, Hooke, and the two kinds of deformation of the earth's rocky rind -- Scandinavia: falcogeny in action? -- Kinds of uplift in a Huttonian world and the foreplay to the craters of elevation theory -- Leopold Von Buch and the development of the theory of craters of elevation: elevation and subsidence in the post-Huttonian world -- Time of transition from "radical theories" to "tangential theories" -- The reinvention and christening of the concept of geosyncline in America -- The exploration of the American west: falcogeny in the plateau country -- Eduard Suess and his contemporaries: the uplift controversy -- Falcogenic and copeogenic events in the twentieth century -- J. Tuzo Wilson and the mantle plumes
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Epeirogeny-- History
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Geodynamics
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551.8
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QE512.S46 2003
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