James Hutton

James Hutton: present and future

by Craig, G. Y., (Gordon Younger) Hull, J. H., (John Hewett)

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Title Statements

  • Full title :James Hutton : present and future / edited by G.Y. Craig & J.H. Hull.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Geological Society
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1999.

Notes

In Geological Society special publication.

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 16 août 2012).

"Includes papers presented at a James Hutton bicentenary conference held in Edinburgh in 1997."

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (1 texte électronique (viii, 184 p.)) : : ill. (certaines en coul.), cartes (certaines en coul.), fichiers PDF.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1862390266, 9781862390263
  • oclc:ocn856569278
  • LC Classification:QE22.H9

Table of Contents

James Hutton's Edinburgh: a prʹecis / D. B. McIntyre -- A theory of the earth: Hutton and Humpty Dumpty and Holmes / D. L. Anderson -- Hot little crucibles are pressured to reveal and calibrate igneous processes / P. J. Wyllie -- High-pressure experiments and the varying depths of rock metamorphism / W. Schreyer -- Coevolution of the earth's environment and life: Goldilocks, Gaia and the anthropic principle / A. J. Watson -- Impacts from space: the implications for uniformitarian geology / U. B. Marvin -- Vestiges of a beginning and the prospect of an end / I. W. Dalziel -- The Dynamic Earth project and the next millennium / S. K. Monro, A. J. Crosbie -- Closing remarks for the Hutton bicentenary, Edinburgh / R. H. Dott -- Hutton scholarship 1992-1997 / D. R. Dean.

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