James Hutton: Present and Future
Product code: SP150
Print publication date: 02/02/1999
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Regional Geology and General Interest, History of Geology
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862390263
Author/Edited by: Edited by: G. Craig and J. H. Hull
Weight: 0.65kg
Number of pages: 192
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/150/1
£70.00
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Special Publication 150
The Collection of papers in this volume commemorates the bicentenary death of James Hutton, the founder of modern geology. Eminent Earth scientists and science historians celebrate his unique contribution to the knowledge of our planet's history and his influence on modern geological thinking.
McIntyre, D. B. - James Hutton's Edinburgh: a precis
Anderson, D. L. - A theory of the Earth: Hutton and Humpty-Dumpty and Holmes
Wyllie, P. J. - Hot little crucibles are pressured to reveal and calibrate igneous processes
Schreyer, W. - High-pressure experiments and the varying depths of rock metamorphism
Watson, A. J. - Co-evolution of the Earth's environment and life: Goldilocks, Gaia and the anthropic Principle
Marvin, U. B. - Impacts from space: the implications for uniformitarian geology
Dalziel, I. W. - Vestiges of a beginning and the prospect of an end
Monro, S. K. & Crosbie, A. J. - The Dynamic Earth project and the next Millennium
Dott, R. H. - Closing remarks for the Hutton Bicentenary, Edinburgh ? Dean, D. R. - Hutton Scholarship 1992-1997