... of a new earth history, and also provides an overview of the chapters in the volume. Australia cosmology earth knowledge geological time geology kinship mappa mundi colonialism cosmopolitan science economic geology Rudwick Martin Scotland Secord James Wales Whiston William Buddhism...

... Ministry of Tourism cosmological and territorial imaginaries geopolitical imaginaries geo-spiritualities political geology geosocial formations cosmologies insurgent movements Anatolia Turkey Kurdish Question Noah's ark In the summer of 2017, I was with Ahmet and Cengiz near the Garzan oil field...

... Charles CD and coral reef theory Grant Robert Herbert Sandra Mauritius Sedgwick Adam Stoddart David theories Henslow John Stevens Lyell Charles Rudwick Martin Darwin Charles CD and Beagle voyage Geological Society Murchison Roderick Impey Principles of Geology Lyell Beaumont Léonce Élie de...

... earlier years in the Muséum's in-house periodical, the Annales du Muséum. But it was prefaced by a new, long, and eloquent “Preliminary Discourse” that set out his ideas not only on fossil bones but, more broadly, on geology as a whole. It was in this celebrated essay that Cuvier...

... of geology, but Cuvier had famously claimed that the policy had limitations, because actual causes were inadequate to explain the earth's major “revolutions.” The work of Karl Ernst Adolf von Hoff is discussed, who showed that although the recorded effects of actual causes such as erosion and sedimentation...

... Argonauta nautilus pearly Nautilus Solnhofen Gypsum gypse formation mastodon megatherium Ohio animal Palestrina mosaic at Prévost Constant “Conybeare and Phillips” book fossils rocks geology Secondary formations de la Beche Lias formation Smithian stratigraphy geohistory Brongniart...

... agreed in rejecting the claims of “scriptural geology,” and often did so with great vehemence. British Critic Conybeare William Luc Jean André de senior Royal Society London Sedgwick Adam Trinity College Cambridge Whewell William Brongniart Alexandre cooling earth theory of Geological Society...

... Brockedon William artist Creation narratives Genesis deluge geological diluvialists diluvium Fleming John Flood Noah's in Genesis Genesis relation to geology human species fossil bones of Pusey Edward timescales geohistorical Brongniart Alexandre iguanodon Smithian stratigraphy Webster Thomas...

...This introductory chapter first discusses how, in the early nineteenth century in Britain, the new science of geology was publicized in spectacular and theatrical forms that enabled it to gain the cultural authority it enjoys today. Performance was central to the public face of earth science. Its...

...The historicization of nature emerged across the eighteenth century first in the development of historical geology and then in the historicization of life forms. Fossils and their stratification and the sense of ruptures in geological lime (“catastrophism”) not only dramatically extended...

... James E astrogeology planetary geology planetary geology astrogeology United States Geological Survey USGS Astrogeology Branch USGS United States Geological Survey Astrogeology Branch Wilhelms Donald geology Urey on Mutch Thomas photogeology Shoemaker Eugene Mueller George E Born Max Mitroff...

... of the “geology” of the scream when it comes to scream mediation and preservation over time, this chapter considers the scream as a meeting point between the aesthetic and material pressures through which radio is constituted, inscribed, and theorized. Cooper Wyllis Listening Room The radio screams Whitehead...

...During the nineteenth-century, the public imagination was captured by the study of the ancient earth—an imagination that was fueled even more with the discovery of dinosaur fossils. This heralded a “golden age” in geology, and this scientific revolution greatly influenced the emergence of new...

... of research and training institutions, such as the Geological School, Geological Survey, and Peking University Department of Geology. Fieldwork was not only important as a critical skill for conducting geological research, it was also the primary means for transmitting geological concepts to uninitiated...

... of Botany and Gardening Newman Edward Rennie James Analyst periodical scientific patronage Adelaide Gallery bible and geology Magazine of Popular Science Perkins Jacob Powell Baden English Henry Karkeek William Floyd Mining Journal Mining Review Veterinarian periodical Lancet Wakley Thomas...

... climates geology Puerto Rican Trench Aves Ridge vegetation people utilization It seems archipelagoes will be well worth examining. —Charles Darwin, field notes, probably July 1836; Berry, 1984 The configuration of the Antilles reveals their role as a partial land bridge between northern South...

... that linked amateur observers with the realms of science: astronomy and natural history. One of the most active areas of science in the nineteenth century had been geology, which had transformed people's view of the earth's past. applied science Popular Science Educator authors Low A M career of children...

... Enlai Chinese Ministry of Geology friendship railroad Lanzhou Xinjiang rail line Soviet Union People's Republic of China oil geology tungsten beryllium World War II Chinese Civil War East Turkestan Republic Three Districts At a July 3, 1942, banquet in Dihua for an eighteen-person...

...The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early nineteenth century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world...

...This book is an in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science...