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Author: Gary Prost Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1351648969 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 636
Book Description
This practical guidebook provides a basic grounding in the principles of geology and explains how to apply them. Using this book, readers will be able to figure out whether they are standing on an ancient seafloor, coal swamp, or sand dune. They will be able to determine the geologic hazards in their neighborhood, where to look for fossils and minerals, or where best to drill a water well. In plain English, The Geology Companion sheds light on the processes that shape the earth and how geology affects people in their daily lives.
Author: Gary Prost Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1351648969 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 636
Book Description
This practical guidebook provides a basic grounding in the principles of geology and explains how to apply them. Using this book, readers will be able to figure out whether they are standing on an ancient seafloor, coal swamp, or sand dune. They will be able to determine the geologic hazards in their neighborhood, where to look for fossils and minerals, or where best to drill a water well. In plain English, The Geology Companion sheds light on the processes that shape the earth and how geology affects people in their daily lives.
Author: Michael Denis Higgins Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9780715627228 Category : Archaeological geology Languages : en Pages : 240
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Apart from archaelogists and geologists, many other visitors to Greece and the Aegean become fascinated by the geology, revealed so clearly in the dramatic landscapes and bare hillsides. There are many links between the archaelogy and the geology of the region - the geological environemtn shaped settlement in antiquity and subsequent geological processes have often been responsible for the preservation or destruction of ancient sites.
Author: Martin J.S. Rudwick Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000948420 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 319
Book Description
The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted around the idea that the natural world had its own history. The earth had to be understood not only in relation to unchanging natural laws that could be observed in action in the present, but also in terms of a pre-human past that could be reliably known, even if not directly observable and its traces only fragmentarily preserved. In contrast to this radically novel sense of nature's own contingent history, the earth's unimaginably vast timescale was already taken for granted by many naturalists (though not yet by the wider public), and the concurrent development of biblical scholarship precluded any significant sense of conflict with religious tradition. A companion volume, Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform, was published in 2005.
Author: Ervan Garrison Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319302329 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 345
Book Description
This 2nd edition is a survey level review of key areas of archaeological geology/geoarchaeology. Principal subject areas include: historical principles; archaeologic and geomorphic surfaces and landforms types; sediments and sediment analytic methods; archaeological stoney materials - petrographic and mineralogic attributes; ceramic materials - mineralogic composition and analytic methods; geochemical methods useful in archaeological geology - studies of materials; commonly used geochronological methods for archaeological geology. Contributions to paleoecology, paleoclimate and ancient cultures as well as multivariate ICP and EDX data are now included.
Author: Erv Garrison Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 366205163X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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The archaeological geology of the Quaternary or the geological epoch during which humankind evolved is a scientific endeavor with much to offer in the fields of archaeology and palaeoanthropology. Earth science techniques offer diverse ways of characterizing the elements of past landscapes and archaeological facies. This book is a survey of techniques used in archaeological geology for the study of soils, sediments, rocks and minerals. The techniques presented represent those most commonly used today. They are discussed in detail and examples are provided, in many cases, to demonstrate their usefulness to archaeologists.
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