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  title info:
    title: Geology and the pioneers of earth science
  name:
    name part: Leeder, M. R. (Mike R.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Aims -- Forewords -- Part 1 Deep Stuff: Settings -- 1 Richard Dixon Oldham (1858-1936) Anglo-Irish geologist and seismologist -- 2 Andrija Mohoroviĉić (1857-1936) Pioneering Croatian seismologist and meteorologist -- 3 Beno Gutenberg (1889-1960) German-USA seismologist -- 4 Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) Danish seismologist -- Part 2 Drifting Stuff: Settings -- 5 Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) German meteorologist and polar explorer -- 6 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897-1974) English physicist -- Part 3 Hot Stuff: Settings
  table of contents: 7 Arthur Holmes (1890-1965) English geologist -- 8 Norman Levi Bowen (1887-1956) Canadian/United States geologist/geochemist -- Part 4 Stressful Stuff: Settings -- 9 Ernest Masson Anderson (1877-1960) Scottish mathematical geologist and independent researcher -- 10 Karl Anton Terzaghi (1883-1963) Austro-Hungarian/USA soil engineer -- 11 Ralph Alger Bagnold (1896-1990) English professional soldier, desert explorer and independent scientist (sedimentology and geomorphology) -- Part 5 Climatic Stuff: Settings
  table of contents: 12 Milutin Milanković (1879-1958) Serbian applied mathematician and palaeoclimatologist -- 13 Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981) USA geochemist and planetologist -- Part 6 Coda: Legacies and Connections -- 14 Mohos exposed -- 15 Slip-sliding away -- 16 Unzipping the oceans -- 17 Carbon, mountains and cooling -- 18 Isotopes, ice and orbits -- Bibliography by chapters -- Index.
  note: Mike Leeder.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Geology
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Geologists
    genre: Biography
  classification: QE11 .L44 2024
  classification: 550.9
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1334718042
  identifier: 9781780466828
  identifier: 178046682X
  identifier: 1780466838
  identifier: 9781780466835
  identifier: 1780461062
  identifier: 9781780461069
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240725
    record change date: 20241007172027.8
    record identifier: in00005508200
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng