Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences : : From Heresy to Truth / / James Powell.
Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scien...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I. DEEP TIME
- The Abyss of Time
- A Great Mistake Has Been Made
- The Bank of Time
- Account Overdrawn
- Strange Rays
- An Hourglass of Great Precision
- Geochronology
- Duck Soup
- PART II. CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND PLATE TECTONICS
- An Idea to Pursue
- A Very Trusting Man
- Dead on Arrival
- Geologists Unite Against Heresy
- Continental Drift: Not Even Wrong
- Postwar Surprises
- Wandering Poles or Drifting Continents?
- The Final Confrontation
- Spreading Seafloors
- HypotHESSes
- The Discovery of the Century
- All This Rubbish
- PART III. METEORITE IMPACT
- A Trivial Process
- To Hunt a Star
- The Moon's Face
- Rosetta Stone
- To a Rocky Moon
- Worlds in Collision
- Dinosaur Killer
- Out with a Bang
- Cosmic Pinball
- PART IV. GLOBAL WARMING
- Origins of the CO2 Theory
- Tedious Calculations of Extraordinary Interest
- Destructive Criticism
- A Unique Experiment of Planetary Dimensions
- Giant Brains
- Warming Is Unequivocal
- From Heresy to Truth
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Recommended Reading
- Bibliography
- Index