The Mystery Of The Earths Mantle

Author : A. Malakhov
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0898755662
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Earth's Mantle written by A. Malakhov and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boiling liquid magma or super hard matter? Inconceivably high temperatures or cold neighboring on absolute zero? What are the depths of the Earth like? What mysteries does its mantle conceal? Science cannot as yet give the exact answers to these questions, though myriads of different hypotheses have been put forth.This is a fascinating book about the romance of prospecting, about the pertinacious investigations of geologists studying the inside of our planet. The author, Professor Anatoly Malakhov, D.Sc. (Geology and Mineralogy) was well known to the Soviet reading public for his previous popular-science books A Hundred Professions of a Geologist and Stories about Stones.

Author : A. Malakhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780846406648
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystery of the Earth's Mantle written by A. Malakhov and published by . This book was released on 1975-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anatoliĭ Alekseevich Malakhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Earth's Mantle written by Anatoliĭ Alekseevich Malakhov and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Veronica della Dora
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674132X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mantle of the Earth written by Veronica della Dora and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the “metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a threshold and as a point of tension.” Featuring numerous illustrations, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor is an intellectual history of the term mantle and its metaphorical representation in art and literature, geography and cartography. Through the history of this metaphor from antiquity to the modern day, we learn about shifting perceptions and representations of global space, about our planetary condition, and about the nature of geography itself.

Author : Ron Miksha
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497562387
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountain Mystery written by Ron Miksha and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, no one could explain mountains. Arguments about their origin were spirited, to say the least. Progressive scientists were ridiculed for their ideas. Most geologists thought the Earth was shrinking. Contracting like a hot ball of iron, shrinking and exposing ridges that became mountains. Others were quite sure the planet was expanding. Growth widened sea basins and raised mountains. There was yet another idea, the theory that the world's crust was broken into big plates that jostled around, drifting until they collided and jarred mountains into existence. That idea was invariably dismissed as pseudo-science. Or "utter damned rot" as one prominent scientist said. But the doubtful theory of plate tectonics prevailed. Mountains, earthquakes, ancient ice ages, even veins of gold and fields of oil are now seen as the offspring of moving tectonic plates. Just half a century ago, most geologists sternly rejected the idea of drifting continents. But a few intrepid champions of plate tectonics dared to differ. The Mountain Mystery tells their story.

Author : James Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576789
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysteries of Terra Firma written by James Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mysteries of Terra Firma, James Lawrence Powell tells an engrossing three-part tale of how we came to understand the ground on which we walk, and how that ground holds the key to the greatest secrets of deep space and time. Naming his profound stories Time, Drift, and Chance, he tells of the three twentieth-century revolutions in thought that created the amazing science of Earth -- and of all planets to the edge of the universe. The riddle that drove the first revolution is obvious and yet in 1904 remained impenetrable: how old is Earth? An encounter between the imperious Lord Kelvin and a New Zealand farm-boy-turned-physicist, Ernest Rutherford, set the stage for the solution and launched a golden century of geology. As a result, scientists learned that if the 4.5 billion years of geologic time were compressed into a single twenty-four-hour period, Homo sapiens would have arrived only in the last second. The geological Revolution of Time reveals how long the ground on which we walk has existed, and how briefly we have trod that ground. In the early twentieth century, German meteorologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener proposed a counterintuitive, heretical theory: that terra firma is not so firm; instead of being fixed in place, continents drift. In 1926, petroleum geologists convened in New York City to discuss Wegener's radical idea, where it was met with outrage and skepticism: "If we are to believe Wegener's hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the last seventy years and start all over again," one attendee said. Forty years later, a new generation did exactly that. The Revolution of Drift, the second part of Powell's narrative, showed us how the ground on which we walk moves. Throughout geologic time, meteorites have incessantly bombarded everything in the solar system. Far from serene and predictable, the planets are ruled by random violence on an unimaginable scale. Once a mountain-sized meteorite flew through space, struck the Earth, killed the dinosaurs and two-thirds of all species, and spared the small hamster-sized creature that happened to be our ancestor. The chance of that happening again is essentially zero. So, the final revolution in Powell's history of a golden century of geology is the Revolution of Chance. Simply put, this revolution in thought has transformed our understanding of how lucky we really are. If we can learn so much from considering no more than the rocks beneath our feet, what will we learn when we begin walking on other planets? Mysteries of Terra Firma is both charming in its storytelling and staggering in its implications. Discovering the ground on which we stand is a fascinating journey into our past -- and our future.

Author : Ian Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521785662
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earth's Mantle written by Ian Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative review of composition, structure and evolution of the mantle for researchers and graduate students.

Author : Académie de Droit International de la Haye
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789028615427
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses, 1966 written by Académie de Droit International de la Haye and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1968-12-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1436 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geophysical Abstracts ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1278 pages
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Download or read book Geophysical Abstracts written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: