1st Edition

The Earth Sciences An Annotated Bibliography

Edited By Roy Porter Copyright 1983
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences. The bibliography is not exhaustive but provides a detailed and critical index to the most important literature in the field. The book’s core focus is geology and examines the subject... Read more

Introduction

Acknowledgements

1 Bibliography and Reference Works

2. General Histories

2a. Histories of Sciences

2b. Histories of Geology

3. Specialist Histories

3a. Geological Philosophy and Methods

3b. Stratigraphy, Structural Geology and Petrology

3c. Geomorphology

3d. Palaeontology

3e. Geology and Evolution

3f. Geology and Human Origins

3g. Earthquakes

3h. Time and Historical Geology

3i. Mineralogy

3j. Glacial Geology

3k. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

3l. Mapping

3m. Practical Geology

3n. Chemical Geology

4. Cognate Sciences

4a. Geophysics

4b. Geography

4c. Oceanography

4d. Natural History

4e. Crystallography and Metallography

5. Studies by Area

5a. Britain

5b. United States

5c. Other, in Alphabetical Order by Country or Continent

6. Biographical Studies

7. Institutional Histories

8. The Social Dimension

9. Geology and Religion

10. Geology, Culture and the Arts

Index

Biography

Roy Porter