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Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences. The bibliography is not exhaustive but provides a detailed and critical index to the most important literature in the field. The book's core focus is geology and examines the subject broadly, covering everything from glaciology, geomorphology, natural history and palaeontology, to oceanography, mapping, stratigraphy and evolution. The book provides detailed essays for each bibliographical chapter on the state of each field of research and the literature compiled for each bibliography will go as far back as around 1700 and contains a wide range of sources from across the world. This book will be of interest to academics and students of natural history, geology, and environmental sciences alike.
List of contents
Introduction Acknowledgements 1. Bibliography and Reference Works 2. General Histories 2a. Histories of Sciences 2b. Histories of Geology 3. Specialist Histories 3a. Geological Philosophy and Methods 3b. Stratigraphy, Structural Geology and Petrology 3c. Geomorphology 3d. Palaeontology 3e. Geology and Evolution 3f. Geology and Human Origins 3g. Earthquakes 3h. Time and Historical Geology 3i. Mineralogy 3j. Glacial Geology 3k. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics 3l. Mapping 3m. Practical Geology 3n. Chemical Geology 4. Cognate Sciences 4a. Geophysics 4b. Geography 4c. Oceanography 4d. Natural History 4e. Crystallography and Metallography 5. Studies by Area 5a. Britain 5b. United States 5c. Other, in Alphabetical Order by Country or Continent 6. Biographical Studies 7. Institutional Histories 8. The Social Dimension 9. Geology and Religion 10. Geology, Culture and the Arts Index
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Roy Porter
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Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences.
