LEADER 03625nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910454063103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-754-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000704729 035 $a(EBL)843240 035 $a(OCoLC)297116287 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000165961 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164903 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165961 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10147080 035 $a(PQKB)10323499 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843240 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843240 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354565 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000704729 100 $a20070307e20071980 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGrove Karl Gilbert$b[electronic resource] $ea great engine of research /$fby Stephen J. Pyne 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican land and life series 300 $aOriginally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, c1980. 311 $a1-58729-618-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-[295]) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a"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 Method 327 $aThe 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; Index 330 $aAs Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert's range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert described two novel forms of mountain building, invented the concept of the graded stream, inaugurated modern theories of lunar origin, helped found the science of geomorphology, and added to the canon of conservation literature. 410 0$aAmerican land and life series. 606 $aGeologists$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGeologists 676 $a550.92 676 $aB 700 $aPyne$b Stephen J.$f1949-$0440564 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454063103321 996 $aGrove Karl Gilbert$92153244 997 $aUNINA