Contents
Secondary enrichment of ore deposits / Samuel Franklin EmmonsDiastrophism as the ultimate basis of correlation / Thomas Crowder Chamberlin
The sculpture of mountains by glaciers ; Origin of limestone caverns / William Morris Davis
Structure and cleavage / Friedrich Becke
The constitution of the interior of the earth as revealed by earthquakes / Richard Dixon Oldham
Dreikanter and ventifacts / John William Evans
Principles of paleogeography / Charles Schuchert
The profile of maturity in alpine glacial erosion / Willard Drake Johnson
Elastic rebound : the cause of tectonic earthquakes / Harry Fielding Reid
Metasomatism / Waldemar Lindgren
Movement of stones by frost action / Axel Hamberg
Criteria for the recognition of ancient delta deposits ; The status of the theory of isostasy / Joseph Barrell
Swinging sealevel of the Ice Age ; Origin of submarine "canyons" / Reginald Aldworth Daly
Radioactive timekeepers / Ernest Rutherford
Classification and duration of the Pleistocene period / George Frederick Kay
Solifluction, a component of subaerial denudation / Johan Gunner Andersson
Quartz as a geological thermometer / Frederic Eugene Wright and Esper Signius Larsen, Jr.
Sedimentation in geosynclines / Owen Thomas Jones
The significance of red color in sediments / Percy Edward Raymond
The rate of regional denudation / Richard Bryant Dole and Herman Stabler
The mineral facies of rocks ; On the principles of metamorphic differentiation ; The origin of granitic magmas / Pentii Eelis Eskola
The geologic role of dilatancy / Warren Judson Mead
A geochemical genetic classification of pegmatites / Akeksandr Yevgen'yevich Fersman
On the direction of magnetization in basalt / Motonori Matsuyama
The batholith problem / Hans Cloos
Convection-currents in the earth / Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz
Mountain pediments ; Cryopedology
the study of frozen ground and intensive frost-action with suggestions on nomenclature / Krik Bryan
The mountain-building cycle / Walter Hermann Bucher
The cycle of erosion / Walther Penck
Active and passive glacial ice and a classification of glaciers / Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann
Mobility of the earth's interior / Beno Gutenberg
The time factor in plutonic geology / Herbert Harold Read
The structure of silicates / William Lawrence Bragg
Syneclises, anticlises, placanticlines, and associated structures / Nikolay Sergeyevich Shatskiy
An experimental study of the physics of blown sand ; Immobility of settled dust and loess / Ralph Alger Bagnold
Transformation of organic material into petroleum under geological conditions: "the geological fence" / Benjamin Burton Cox
Correlation and extent of Pennsylvanian cyclothems / Harold Rollin Wanless and James Marvin Weller
North Atlantic deep-sea cores / Wilmot Hugh Bradley, Milton Nunn Bramlette, Joseph Augustine Cushman, and Lloyd George Henbest
Mobility and inertness of components in metasomatism / Dimitriy Sergeyevich Korshinskiy
The solubility of water in granite magmas / Roy Waldemar Goranson
An instrumental earthquake magnitude scale / Charles Francis Richter
The cycle of activity of a lava flow / Fred Mason Bullard
The megascopic and field classification of sedimentary rocks / Paul Dimitri Krynine
Modern concepts of clay minerals / Ralph Early Grim
The role of temperature in metamorphism / Martin Julian Buerger
Entrapment of petroleum under hydrodynamic conditions / Marion King Hubbert
Geosynclinal nomenclature and the craton / George Marshall Kay
Studies of redox potential of marine sediments / Claude Ephraim Zobell
Concept of the graded river / Joseph Hoover Mackin
Interpretation of the stratigraphic distribution of foraminifera in bottom samples from the equatorial Atlantic Ocean / Wolfgang Ernst Schott
Drowned ancient islands of the Pacific Basin / Harry Hammond Hess
Mechanics of the formation of folds / Vladimir Vladimirovich Belousov
The evolution of landscapes / Lester Charles King
Radiocarbon dating / Willard Frank Libby
The pattern and possible cause of young mountain ranges and island arcs / John Tuzo Wilson
Experimental flow of rocks under conditions favoring recrystallization / David Tressel Griggs
Recent and Pleistocene coral reefs of Australia / Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge
The stability and significance of magnetism in sedimentary rocks / John Warren Graham.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Geology
-- History.
Geology. |
| Publisher | Cambridge, Massachusetts :Harvard University Press,1967 |
| Contributors |
Mather, Kirtley F.
(Kirtley Fletcher), 1888-1978, editor. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Sequel to: A source book in geology, published in 1939, reprinted in 1964. |
| Description |
xv, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Other | Classic View |