Book ID: CBB000005171

Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (1979)

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Schneer, Cecil J. (Editor)


University Press of New England
Publication date: 1979


Publication Date: 1979
Physical Details: xvi + 385 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Most of the papers from this conference have been indexed separately in the present bibliography. Others include: Menard, H. W.: Very like a spear. Winder, C. G.: Peripatetic perambulation on publication. Hazen, R. M., Hazen, M. H.: Neglected geological literature: An introduction to a bibliography of American-published geology, 1669 to 1850 (abstract). Mirsky, A.: Geologic resources of the original thirteen United States (summary). Dott, R. H., Jr.: The geosyncline--First major geological concept “made in America”. Dean, Dennis R.: The influence of geology on American literature and thought. Gregory, J. T.: North American vertebrate paleontology, 1776-1976.


Includes Chapters

Chapter Cailleux, André (1979) The geological map of North America (1752) of J.-E. Guettard. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 43). unapi

Chapter Taylor, Kenneth L. (1979) Geology in 1776: Some notes on the character of an incipient science. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 75). unapi

Chapter Aldrich, Michele L. (1979) American state geological surveys, 1820-1845. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Dusek, Val (1979) Geodesy and the earth sciences in the philosophy of C. S. Peirce. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 265). unapi

Chapter Lintner, Stephen F.; Stapleton, Darwin H. (1979) Geological theory and practice in the career of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 107). unapi

Chapter Pickett, Thomas E. (1979) James C. Booth and the first Delaware Geological Survey, 1837-1841. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 167). unapi

Chapter Skinner, Hubert C. (1979) Raymond Thomassy and the practical geology of Louisiana. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 201). unapi

Chapter Manning, Thomas G. (1979) George Otis Smith as fourth director of the U. S. Geological Survey. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 157). unapi

Chapter Alexandrov, Eugene A. (1979) 100th anniversary of observations on petroleum geology in the U.S.A. by Dimitriy I. Mendeleyev. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 285). unapi

Chapter Parry, Ellwood C. (1979) Acts of God, acts of man: Geological ideas and the imaginary landscapes of Thomas Cole. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 53). unapi

Chapter Jordan, William M. (1979) Geology and the industrial-transportation revolution in early to mid-19th century Pennsylvania. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 91). unapi

Chapter Burstyn, Harold L.; Schlee, Susan B. (1979) The study of ocean currents in America before 1930. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 145). unapi

Chapter Alexander, Nancy (1979) The work of Edwin Theodore Dumble on the East Texas lignite deposits (1888-1892). In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 213). unapi

Chapter Gerstner, Patsy A. (1979) Henry Darwin Rogers and William Barton Rogers on the nomenclature of the American Paleozoic rocks. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 175). unapi

Chapter Nelson, Clifford M.; Fryxell, Fritiof M. (1979) The ante-bellum collaboration of Meek and Hayden in stratigraphy. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 187). unapi

Chapter Pyne, Stephen J. (1979) Certain allied problems in mechanics: Grove Karl Gilbert at the Henry Mountains. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 225). unapi

Chapter Gould, Stephen Jay (1979) Agassiz's later, private thoughts on evolution: His marginalia in Haeckel's Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868). In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 277). unapi

Chapter Frankel, Henry (1979) Why drift theory was accepted with the confirmation of Harry Hess's concept of sea floor spreading. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 337). unapi

Chapter Hemphill, Marie-Louise (1979) Le crâne de Bone Bank (Indiana) et les fossiles de Walnut Hills, par Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, 1778-1846. In: Two hundred years of geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology (p. 121). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Porter, Roy S.
Baldridge, W. Scott
Burshtein, Ye. F.
Cailleux, André
Davis, Robert V.
Davy, Humphry
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
American Scientist
British Journal for the History of Science
Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Publishers
Geological Society of America
Broadway Books
Clarendon Press
Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory, Division of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross
Lang
Concepts
Geology
Earth sciences
Biographies
Zoology
Translations
Correspondence and corresponding
People
Lyell, Charles
Andersson, Johan Gunnar
Buckland, William
Carson, Rachel Louise
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Davy, Humphry
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Neolithic period
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British Isles
Russia
United States
China
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Sankt-Peterburgskii Akademia Nauk
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