James Hutton : present and future /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Geological Society of London
Other Authors:	Craig, G. Y. (Gordon Younger), Hull, J. H. (John Hewett)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Geological Society, 1999.
Series:	Geological Society special publication ; no. 150.
Subjects:	Hutton, James, > 1726-1797 > Congresses. Hutton, James, > 1726-1797. > Theory of the earth > Congresses. Geology > History > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

James Hutton's Edinburgh: a prʹecis / D. B. McIntyre
A theory of the earth: Hutton and Humpty Dumpty and Holmes / D. L. Anderson
Hot little crucibles are pressured to reveal and calibrate igneous processes / P. J. Wyllie
High-pressure experiments and the varying depths of rock metamorphism / W. Schreyer
Coevolution of the earth's environment and life: Goldilocks, Gaia and the anthropic principle / A. J. Watson
Impacts from space: the implications for uniformitarian geology / U. B. Marvin
Vestiges of a beginning and the prospect of an end / I. W. Dalziel
The Dynamic Earth project and the next millenium / S. K. Monro, A. J. Crosbie
Closing remarks for the Hutton bicentenary, Edinburgh / R. H. Dott
Hutton scholarship 1992-1997 / D. R. Dean.