Earth cycles
Subtitle: a historical perspective
By: David Oldroyd
Series: Greenwood guides to great ideas in science; Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780313027345
Subjects: Geology; Periodicity; Geological time; Cycles; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-224) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: thinking in cycles; title: Ideas of geocycles from the ancient world to the renaissance; title: Straightforward thinking about the earth; title: Robert Hooke and the first testable-in-principle theory of geological cycles; title: The founder of geology? James Hutton and the geostrophic cycle, and a French cyclist; title: Charles Lyell: an earth always changing but ever the same; title: Cycling in the landscape; title: Mountains, basins, and sediments; title: The earth, the solar system, cycles, and glaciation; title: Cycles in the strata: cyclothems; title: Sequence stratigraphy and eustasy; title: The geomagnetic timescale and related matters; title: Geochemical cycling; title: Themes and variations.