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Author : George McCready Price
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Geology and the New Catastrophism written by George McCready Price and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George McCready Price
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ISBN 13 : 9780816331079
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Geology written by George McCready Price and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Ager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521483582
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Catastrophism written by Derek Ager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-examination of earth history in terms of rare and violent events through geological time.
Author : George M. Price
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ISBN 13 : 9780915554430
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Geology and the New Catastrophism written by George M. Price and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael R. Rampino
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544871
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cataclysms written by Michael R. Rampino and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other fauna from the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists found evidence for this theory in a “crater of doom” on the Yucatán Peninsula, showing that our planet had once been a target in a galactic shooting gallery. In Cataclysms, Michael R. Rampino builds on the latest findings from leading geoscientists to take “neocatastrophism” a step further, toward a richer understanding of the science behind major planetary upheavals and extinction events. Rampino recounts his conversion to the impact hypothesis, describing his visits to meteor-strike sites and his review of the existing geological record. The new geology he outlines explicitly rejects nineteenth-century “uniformitarianism,” which casts planetary change as gradual and driven by processes we can see at work today. Rampino offers a cosmic context for Earth’s geologic evolution, in which cataclysms from above in the form of comet and asteroid impacts and from below in the form of huge outpourings of lava in flood-basalt eruptions have led to severe and even catastrophic changes to the Earth’s surface. This new geology sees Earth’s position in our solar system and galaxy as the keys to understanding our planet’s geology and history of life. Rampino concludes with a controversial consideration of dark matter’s potential as a triggering mechanism, exploring its role in heating Earth’s core and spurring massive volcanism throughout geologic time.
Author : Trevor Palmer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461549019
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution written by Trevor Palmer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record. According to the catastrophists, new species do not evolve gradually; they proliferate following sudden mass extinctions. Placing this major change of perspective within the context of a range of ancient debates, Palmer discusses such topics as the history of the solar system, present-day extraterrestrial threats to earth, hominid evolution, and the fossil record.
Author : Thomas Moynihan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913029638
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spinal Catastrophism written by Thomas Moynihan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, André Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal. Tracing its provenance through the biological notions of phylogeny and “organic memory” that fueled early psychoanalysis, back into idealism, nature philosophy, and romanticism, and across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology, Thomas Moynihan reveals the historical continuity of spinal catastrophism. From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from “railway spine” to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fanciful notion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history.
Author : Richard J. Huggett
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859841297
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catastrophism written by Richard J. Huggett and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most dramatic intellectual events of the last decade has been the stunning re-emergence of the catastrophist paradigm in the biological and earth sciences From killer asteroids to emergent viruses, it has become evident that the history of life on earth has been shaped—far more than previous orthodoxies would allow ... by extreme events and non-linear processes. The old "uniformitarian" dogma of steady-rate evolution has been decisively challenged by the research of contemporary neo-catastrophists like Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, Stuart Ross Taylor, Ursula Marvin and Kenneth Hsu. Whether debating the origin of the moon or the current human impact on the biosphere, they urge us to recognize the radically event- or chance-driven structure of natural history. Surveying these various theories of uniformitarian and neo-catastrophist thought in a clear and accessible fashion, and seeking a path towards a new and workable synthesis, Richard Hugget provides a superb introduction to the ideas which have defined the way we look at the world.
Author : Sir Charles Lyell
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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Principles of Geology written by Sir Charles Lyell and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Huggett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catastrophism written by Richard Huggett and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
