LEADER 04757nam 2200721 450 001 9910807146803321 005 20211018125242.0 010 $a0-231-53845-6 024 7 $a10.7312/powe16448 035 $a(CKB)3710000000272511 035 $a(EBL)1830699 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001367999 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12464937 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001367999 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11447956 035 $a(PQKB)10633152 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001248644 035 $a(DE-B1597)458470 035 $a(OCoLC)979953875 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231538459 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1830699 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10993226 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL666361 035 $a(OCoLC)894791171 035 $z(PPN)233900160 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1830699 035 $a(PPN)201887762 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000272511 100 $a20141219h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFour revolutions in the earth sciences $efrom heresy to truth /$fJames Lawrence Powell 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-35079-5 311 $a0-231-16448-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tPART I. DEEP TIME --$tThe Abyss of Time --$tA Great Mistake Has Been Made --$tThe Bank of Time --$tAccount Overdrawn --$tStrange Rays --$tAn Hourglass of Great Precision --$tGeochronology --$tDuck Soup --$tPART II. CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND PLATE TECTONICS --$tAn Idea to Pursue --$tA Very Trusting Man --$tDead on Arrival --$tGeologists Unite Against Heresy --$tContinental Drift: Not Even Wrong --$tPostwar Surprises --$tWandering Poles or Drifting Continents? --$tThe Final Confrontation --$tSpreading Seafloors --$tHypotHESSes --$tThe Discovery of the Century --$tAll This Rubbish --$tPART III. METEORITE IMPACT --$tA Trivial Process --$tTo Hunt a Star --$tThe Moon's Face --$tRosetta Stone --$tTo a Rocky Moon --$tWorlds in Collision --$tDinosaur Killer --$tOut with a Bang --$tCosmic Pinball --$tPART IV. GLOBAL WARMING --$tOrigins of the CO2 Theory --$tTedious Calculations of Extraordinary Interest --$tDestructive Criticism --$tA Unique Experiment of Planetary Dimensions --$tGiant Brains --$tWarming Is Unequivocal --$tFrom Heresy to Truth --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tRecommended Reading --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOver the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific-and sometimes religious-heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to accept each theory. The stories behind these four discoveries reflect more than the fascinating push and pull of scientific work. They reveal the provocative nature of science and how it raises profound and sometimes uncomfortable truths as it advances. For example, counter to common sense, the Earth and the solar system are older than all of human existence; the interactions among the moving plates and the continents they carry account for nearly all of the Earth's surface features; and nearly every important feature of our solar system results from the chance collision of objects in space. Most surprising of all, we humans have altered the climate of an entire planet and now threaten the future of civilization. This absorbing scientific history is the only book to describe the evolution of these four ideas from heresy to truth, showing how science works in practice and how it inevitably corrects the mistakes of its practitioners. Scientists can be wrong, but they do not stay wrong. In the process, astonishing ideas are born, tested, and over time take root. 606 $aGeology$xHistory 606 $aGeological time 606 $aContinental drift 606 $aMeteoritic hypothesis 606 $aGlobal warming 615 0$aGeology$xHistory. 615 0$aGeological time. 615 0$aContinental drift. 615 0$aMeteoritic hypothesis. 615 0$aGlobal warming. 676 $a550 700 $aPowell$b James Lawrence$f1936-$0290774 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807146803321 996 $aFour revolutions in the earth sciences$93951985 997 $aUNINA