Grove Karl Gilbert

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729754X
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Download or read book Grove Karl Gilbert written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert’s range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert described two novel forms of mountain building, invented the concept of the graded stream, inaugurated modern theories of lunar origin, helped found the science of geomorphology, and added to the canon of conservation literature. Gilbert knew most of geology's grand figures--including John Wesley Powell, Clarence Dutton, and Clarence King--and Pyne's chronicle of the imperturbable, quietly unconventional Gilbert is couterpointed with sketches of these prominent scientists. The man who wrote that "happiness is sitting under a tent with walls uplifted, just after a brief shower,", created answers to the larger questions of the earth in ways that have become classics of his science.

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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Biographical Memoir, Grove Karl Gilbert, 1843-1918 written by William Morris Davis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grove Karl Gilbert
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Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Part of the Field Notes of Grove Karl Gilbert for the Period 20 June 1875 to 24 November 1876 written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book The Moon's Face written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grove Karl Gilbert
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Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grove Karl Gilbert
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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Presidential Address [The Origin of Hypotheses] written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellis Leon Yochelson
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Download or read book The Scientific Ideas of G.K. Gilbert written by Ellis Leon Yochelson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellis Leon Yochelson
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813721830
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book The Scientific Ideas of G.K. Gilbert written by Ellis Leon Yochelson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karl F. Nordstrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516156
Total Pages : 289 pages
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Download or read book Beach and Dune Restoration written by Karl F. Nordstrom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition presents progress made to practices, additional case studies, and emerging issues, for coastal scientists, engineers, planners.

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Download or read book Rhythms and Geologic Time written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grove Karl Gilbert (May 6, 1843 - May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist. Gilbert was born in Rochester, New York and graduated from the University of Rochester. In 1871, he joined George M. Wheeler's geographical survey as its first geologist. He then joined the Powell Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region in 1874, becoming Powell's primary assistant, and stayed with the survey until 1879. During this time he published an important monograph, The Geology of the Henry Mountains (1877). After the creation of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1879, he was appointed to the position of Senior Geologist and worked for the USGS until his death (including a term as acting director). Gilbert published a study of the former ancient Lake Bonneville in 1890 (the lake existed during the Pleistocene), of which the Great Salt Lake is a remnant. He named that lake after the army captain Benjamin L.E. de Bonneville, who had explored this region previously. The type of river delta that Gilbert described at this location has since become known to geomorphologists as a Gilbert delta. In 1891, Gilbert examined the possible origins for a crater in Arizona, now known as Meteor Crater but then referred to as Coon Butte. For a number of reasons, and against his intuition, he concluded it was the result of a volcanic steam explosion rather than an impact of a meteorite. Gilbert based his conclusions on a belief that for an impact crater, the volume of the crater including the meteorite should be more than the ejected material on the rim and also a belief that if it was a meteorite then iron should create magnetic anomalies. Gilbert's calculations showed that the volume of the crater and the debris on the rim were roughly equal. Further there were no magnetic anomalies. Gilbert argued that the meteorite fragments found on the rim were just "coincidence." Gilbert would publicize these conclusions in a series of lectures in 1895. Subsequent investigations would reveal that it was in fact a meteor crater, but that interpretation was not well established until the mid-20th century. As part of his interest in crater origins, Gilbert also studied the moon's craters and concluded they were caused by impact events rather than volcanoes, although he wondered why the craters were round and not oval as expected for an oblique impact. The interpretation of lunar craters as of impact origin was also debated until the mid-20th century. He joined the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Two weeks after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Gilbert took a series of photographs documenting the damage along the San Andreas fault from Inverness to Bolinas. Gilbert is considered one of the giants of the sub-discipline of geomorphology, having contributed to the understanding of landscape evolution, erosion, river incision and sedimentation. Gilbert was a planetary science pioneer, correctly identifying lunar craters as caused by impacts, and carrying out early impact-cratering experiments. Gilbert was one of the more influential early American geologists.