Geology and the pioneers of earth science /
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2024.
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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
- 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
- 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.