David Oldroyd

Earth Cycles

A Historical Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Humans have tried to figure out what formed the landscape of the earth for thousands of years. How were mountains created? Where did lakes and rivers come from? What lies under the surface of the earth? And one concept that greatly aided the scientific advance of the earth sciences was that of geological cycles. Once scientists understood that many geological actions are cyclic, the scientific knowledge of the earth exploded. These ideas are central to the nature of the earth sciences, and appreciating how scientists arrived at these ideas is essential for understanding the nature of the earth sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780313332296
• ISBN-10: 0313332290
• Artikelnr.: 21916564

Autorenporträt

David Oldroyd

Inhaltsangabe

Figure 2.1. Leonardo's "theory of the Earth" from his "Codex Leicester."
(Leonardo d Vinci, 2000, 31)
Figure 3.1a. Four stages in the Earth's development (Descartes 1656, 151).
Figure 3.1b. Further development of the Earth (Descartes 1656, 155).
Figure 3.2. Steno's scheme for the geological history of Tuscany (1669,
unnumbered page, preceding ).
Figure 3.3. Frontispiece to Burnet's Theory of the Earth (1684).
Figure 3.4. Figure from Burnet's Theory of the Earth (1684, 57).
Figure 3.5. Formation of oceans and mountains due to collapse structures
(Burnet 1697, 227).
Figure 4.1. The Earth, its envelope of water, and the initial directions of
motion of freely falling objects at different latitudes, based on Hooke's
account in his Posthumous Works.
Figure 5.1. The "geostrophic cycle."
Figure 5.2. Cross section of northern part of Arran, drawn by John Clerk,
Jr., 1787.
Figure 5.3. Geological sketch map of northern Arran showing likely line of
section for Clerk's drawing (Figure 5.2).
Figure 5.4. Unconformity at Loch Ranza, Arran, as figured by Archibald
Geikie (1899).
Figure 5.5. Profile of unconformity observed by Hutton near Jedburgh in
1787.
Figure 5.6. Unconformity at Siccar Point.
Figure 5.7. The evolving continuum of mineral substances from the residues
of living organisms, according to Lamarck's Hydrogeology.
Figure 6.1. The "Temple" of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples.
Figure 6.2. Illustration of Lyell's theory of "random" creation and
extinction of species.
Figure 7.1. Development of canyon profiles according to the hardness of
strata (Dutton 1882, plate 40, facing p. 250).
Figure 7.2. Evolution of a landscape according to Davis, from Holmes (1944,
187).
Figure 8.1. Part of the Earth's pentagonal arrangement of mountain ranges
(Élie de Beaumont 1852, vol. 3, plate 5).
Figure 8.2. Cooling, contracting globe (Dana 1847a, 181).
Figure 8.3. Depiction of Dana's ideas on mountain building, as
reconstructed by Dott (1997, 299).
Figure 8.4. Folds and dislocations due to (a) lateral compression (b)
subsidence, according to Suess.
Figure 8.5. Suess's model of mountain building (S¿engör 1982, 400, fig. 4).
Figure 8.6. Breakup of Pangea, according to Wegener's Origin of Continents
and Oceans (1966, 18-19).
Figure 8.7. Convection currents within the Earth's mantle, producing
continental drift (Holmes 1929, 579).
Figure 8.8. Development of geosynclines and the formation of mountains
(Holmes 1929, 582).
Figure 8.9. Convection currents within the Earth (Holmes 1944, 506).
Figure 8.10. Magnetization of the rocks of the ocean floor off the coast of
western Canada (Mason and Raff 1961, 1268).
Figure 8.11. The "ideal" Bouma sequence, as depicted by Bouma (1962, 49).
Figure 8.12. Hypothetical form of the deposition cone of a turbidity
current and hypothetical filling of a basin by turbidites.
Figure 9.1. Global changes in temperature over time (Agassiz 1837).
Figure 9.2. Earth's orbit around the Sun, illustrating the phenomenon of
precession.
Figure 9.3. Changes of the Earth's alignment in space, at periods of high
orbital ellipticity, as depicted by Croll (1875, frontispiece).
Figure 9.4. Milankovic's radiation graphs for 55°, 60°, and 65°N, as
published in Köppen and Wegener (1924, plate facing p. 256).
Figure 9.5. Components of the variations of the Earth's motion in space,
through time (Berger 1988, 636).
Figure 10.1. Sediment record in a sinking basin undergoing oscillations in
base level (Barrell 1917, 796).
Figure 10.2. Sedimentation cycles (Udden 1912, 27).
Figure 10.3. Correlations of strata in western Illinois (Wanless 1931,
189).
Figure 10.4. Ideal cyclothem (Willman and Payne 1942, 86).
Figure 10.5a. Cyclothems (Holliday Drive, Kansas City, by the southern bank
of the Kansas River, near its junction with the Missouri River).
Figure 10.5b. Limestone with shale partings (Holliday Drive, Kansas City).
Figure 10.6. De Geer examining varves in Vermont, 1920.
Figure 11.1. Generalized section from the Pacific to the Rockies
(northwestern United States) (Wheeler 1958, 1052).
Figure 11.2. Time-stratigraphic diagram, representing the sequences
depicted in Figure 11.1 (Wheeler 1958, 1053).
Figure 11.3. Time-stratigraphic relationships for sequences of the North
American craton (Sloss 1963, 110).
Figure 11.4. The Vail curve, as unveiled in 1977, with two levels of
resolution (Vail et al. 1977a, 84).
Figure 11.5. Conversion of data obtained from seismic stratigraphy into
part of a Vail curve (Vail et al. 1977a, 78).
Figure 11.6. The "averaging" of sea-level curves from four different
regions to yield a global sea-level curve, right-hand drawing (Vail et al.
1977b, 90).
Figure 11.7. Profile of a typical sequence and a corresponding Wheeler
diagram (Haq et al. 1987, 1157).
Figure 12.1. Part of the geomagnetic time scale (Hoffman 1988, 55).
Figure 12.2. Variations of oxygen isotope composition with depth for two
species of foraminifera for a Caribbean core (V12-122) (Broecker and Van
Donk 1970, 175).
Figure 12.3. Comparison of oxygen isotope ratios and magnetic polarities
for Lamont Core V28-238 (Shackleton and Opdyke 1973, 48, fig. 9).
Figure 13.1. Nieuwenkamp's "persedimentary" model of the continuous rock
series (Nieuwenkamp 1968, 366, fig. 1).
Figure 13.2. The "crust-ocean factory" (Garrels and Mackenzie 1971, 330).
Figure 13.3. The "steady-state flow net" (Garrels and Perry 1974, 313).
Figure 13.4. Comparison of d13C carbonate and d34S sulfate isotope curves
for Phanerozoic time (Holser et al. 1988, 139, 140).
Figure 13.5. Comparison through the Phanerozoic of d13Ooxidized and
d13Oreduced, reduced carbon/total carbon, and sea levels (Pigott 1981, fig.
15).