03591nam 2200577 a 450 991078275940332120220804170403.01-58729-754-X(CKB)1000000000704729(EBL)843240(OCoLC)297116287(SSID)ssj0000165961(PQKBManifestationID)11164903(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165961(PQKBWorkID)10147080(PQKB)10323499(MdBmJHUP)muse8967(Au-PeEL)EBL843240(CaPaEBR)ebr10354565(MiAaPQ)EBC843240(EXLCZ)99100000000070472920070307e20071980 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGrove Karl Gilbert[electronic resource] a great engine of research /by Stephen J. PyneIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20071 online resource (321 p.)American land and life seriesOriginally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, c1980.1-58729-618-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-[295]) and index.Contents; Author's Note to the Paperback Edition; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. In a Nutshell; The Education of a Classicist; A Clerk in the Cosmos; Of Mastodons and Mathematics: The Cohoes Potholes; Cracking the Nutshell; 2. "Astride the occidental mule"; A Volunteer Assistant; "Labels written by the Creator": John Strong Newberry; "Hydrographical peculiarities"; West with Wheeler; "A systematic approach": The Geology of a Reconnaissance; The Lieutenant and the Major; 3. The Major Years; "The western fever"; By Virtue of Its Ensemble: Powell, Dutton, Gilbert"Certain allied problems in mechanics": The Henry MountainsLanguages for a New Geology: Mechanics, Mathematics, Literature; The Society of a Geologist; 4. A Great Engine of Research; The Division of the Great Basin; The Revolving Chair: Chief Geologist of the U.S.Geological Survey; The Scientist as Aristocrat: George Ferdinand Becker; Lake Bonneville; Time's Ratio: The Meaning of Geologic History; "A little daft on the subject of the moon"; The Great Basin Mess; 5. Grade; A "buried star"; The Mean Plain; The Inculcation of Scientific MethodThe Text for a University Science: Thomas Chrowder ChamberlinAn Elder Statesman; 6. The Inculcation of Grove Karl Gilbert; Geophysics in the Giant Forest; Gilbert the Glaciologist; Gilbert the Geophysicist; Gilbert the Geomorphologist; The Cycle of Erosion: William Morris Davis; A New Life; Notes; Sources; Biographical Memoirs; IndexAs Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert's range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert described two novel forms of mountain building, invented the concept of the graded stream, inaugurated modern theories of lunar origin, helped found the science of geomorphology, and added to the canon of conservation literature.American land and life series.GeologistsUnited StatesBiographyGeologists550.92BPyne Stephen J.1949-440564MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782759403321Grove Karl Gilbert3799505UNINA