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Product Code: SP317
Title: The Making of the Geological Society of London
Series: GSL Special Publications
Author/Editor: Edited by C L E Lewis and S J Knell
Publication Date: 03 September 2009
New Publication
Description: In celebration of the Geological Society’s 200-year history, this book commemorates the lives of its 13 founders and sets geology in its national and European context at the turn of the nineteenth century. The tremendous energy of these men quickly fuelled the nation’s passion for geology, which soon spread to America and Australia.
SP317
You pay £120.00 List price
£60.00 Fellows price
£96.00 Corporate Affiliates Price
£72.00 Other Societies' price
Product Code: UMR203
Title: The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Series: GSA Memoirs
Author/Editor: Edited by Gary D. Rosenberg
Publication Date: 06 July 2009
Description: This volume explores how modern geology began to take shape during a momentous period of Western civilization when a revolution in understanding spatial relationships transformed the paradigm of nature and the affairs of humankind.
UMR203
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Product Code: USPE449
Title: The World in a Crucible: Laboratory Practice and Geological Theory at the Beginning of Geology
Series: GSA Special Papers
Author/Editor: By Sally Newcomb
Publication Date: 01 May 2009
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Description: This Special Paper makes the case that it was the parameters of heat, pressure, solution, and composition discovered in the laboratory that prevented resolution of the overriding questions about rock origin.
USPE449
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Product Code: SP310
Title: Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility
Series: GSL Special Publications
Author/Editor: Edited by M Kolbl-Ebert
Publication Date: 11 March 2009
Description: For thousands of years, religion has shaped the thoughts and deeds of human beings, and therefore many early geological concepts were initially developed in this context. The book discusses this long-standing relationship, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful, and sometimes full of conflict
SP310
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£47.50 Fellows price
£76.00 Corporate Affiliates Price
£57.00 Other Societies' price
Product Code: HSL4
Title: The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology Volume 4: Quaternary and Recent Processes and Forms (1890-1965) and the Mid-Century Revolutions
Series: GSL Miscellaneous Titles
Author/Editor: Edited by T P Burt, R J Chorley, D Brunsden N J Cox and A S Goudie
Publication Date: 05 December 2008
Description: This volume, the fourth in the series, covers the development of the study of geomorphology from 1890 to 1965. It is divided into five sections. After chapters dealing with geological controls, there are three sections dealing with process and form: fluvial, glacial and other process domains. The final section covers the mid-century revolutions, anticipating the onset of quantitative studies and dating techniques. It describes many of the developments that provide the foundation for the rich and varied subject matter of the science of geomorphology today.
HSL4
You pay £135.00 List price
£67.50 Fellows price
£81.00 Other Societies' price
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