03187nam 2200673 a 450 991077974970332120200520144314.090-04-24170-1(CKB)2550000001094505(EBL)1224302(OCoLC)851155411(SSID)ssj0000917921(PQKBManifestationID)11485414(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917921(PQKBWorkID)10911356(PQKB)10471166(MiAaPQ)EBC1224302(nllekb)BRILL9789004241701(Au-PeEL)EBL1224302(CaPaEBR)ebr10725076(CaONFJC)MIL500342(OCoLC)852849513(PPN)184924510(EXLCZ)99255000000109450520130429d2013 uy 0engurun####uuuuatxtccrDiscovering the ice ages[electronic resource] international reception and consequences for a historical understanding of climate /by Tobias Krüger ; translated by Ann M. HentschelLeiden Brill20131 online resource (554 p.)History of science and medicine library,1872-0684 ;v. 37Description based upon print version of record.90-04-24169-8 1-299-69091-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Introduction -- How Erratic Blocks Caught the Eye of Science -- Glacier Advances and Icy Theories : 1810-1830 -- Glacier and Ice-Age Theories in the First Half of the 1830's -- The Grand Synthesis -- International Reception of Glacial Theory -- The Search for Causes of the Ice Ages -- Conclusions.Tobias Krüger explores the discovery of the Ice Ages, how the idea was received, and what further research it stimulated. The approach used in Discovering the Ice Ages is uniquely sweeping. The contemporary debates on the subject are compared from an international perspective. Krüger retraces the arguments advanced from the middle of the 18th century to the threshold of the 20th century. The positions held by defenders of the glacial theory as well as those by its most important opponents are set within the context of the then current understanding of geology. In an interdisciplinary overview Krüger then focuses on the impetus gained from early ice-age research. The most prominent examples worth mentioning are the discovery of trace gases and the greenhouse effect.History of Science and Medicine Library37.Geology, StratigraphicPleistoceneGlacial epochGeologyHistoryClimatologyHistoryGeology, StratigraphicGlacial epoch.GeologyHistory.ClimatologyHistory.551.7/92Krüger Tobias1976-1570667Hentschel Ann1149546MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779749703321Discovering the ice ages3844494UNINA