epub |eng | | Author:Doug Macdougall

CHAPTER EIGHT Cold Times The ice ages near the end of the Proterozoic eon were undoubtedly the most severe glacial periods ever to affect our planet. But these frigid intervals ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Fortey

13 The Weald Tunbridge Wells lies near the heart of the Weald. Commuters pour from it into London; it is a safe and comfortable place, encapsulating the solid virtues of ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-28 | Author:David B. Williams

Some people say we should thank Mrs. O’Leary’s cow for the popularity of Salem Limestone. Legend holds that her bovine kicked over a bucket that started the 1871 fire that ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-26 | Author:John McPhee

“Hole” was a term used by the earliest whites to describe any valley that was closely framed by very high mountains. It was used by David Jackson, who essentially had ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Charles Lyell

CHAPTER 4 Hybrids We have yet to consider another class of phenomena, those relating to the production of hybrids, which have been regarded in a very different light with reference ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Doug Macdougall

Figure 14.The graph that Milutin Milankovitch sent to Wladimir Köppen shows the “equivalent latitude” for 65° N in summer, based on the amount of solar energy received, for the past ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Neil Shubin [Shubin, Neil]

This was an age of exploration of the natural world, and by looking at rocks and fossils, people began to formulate new ideas. Ships returned monthly from the far corners ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Catastrophes! [Catastrophes!]

epub |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

The Dollar Real Money: a 1922 U.S. silver dollar. The most ordinary thing in the world, a scrap of paper: a buck, a greenback. The dollar: flimsy fuel for the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester

The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...

epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester

The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-02 | Author:David R. Montgomery

Figure 15. Map of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States showing the net depth of topsoil eroded from colonial times to i98o (modified from Meade i98z, 241, fig. ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Ted Nield

Non posse The reason for du Toit’s failure lay in the nature of the evidence itself, of the ‘proofs’, as Skerl would have translated it. Both du Toit and Wegener ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-03 | Author:Simon Winchester

The British consul in Batavia at the time was one Alexander Patrick Cameron; and five days later he sat down in his study and had his confidential clerk write out, ...