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245 10 a| Earth's deep history :b| how it was discovered and why it matters /c| Martin J. S. Rudwick.;

264 1 a| Chicago ;a| London :b| The University of Chicago Press,c| 2014.;

300 a| ix, 360 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.;

505 0 a| Making history a science. The science of chronology ; Dating world history ; Periods of world history ; Noah's Flood as history ; The finite cosmos ; The threat of eternalism -- Nature's own antiquities. Historians and antiquaries ; Natural antiquities ; New ideas about fossils ; New ideas about history ; Fossils and the Flood ; Plotting the Earth's history -- Sketching big pictures. A new scientific genre ; A "sacred" theory? ; A slowly cooling Earth? ; A cyclic world-machine? ; Worlds ancient and modern? -- Expanding time and history. Fossils as nature's coins ; Strata as nature's archives ; Volcanoes as nature's monuments ; Natural history and the history of nature ; Guessing the Earth's timescale -- Bursting the limits of time. The reality of extinction ; The Earth's last revolution ; The present as a key to the past ; The testimony of erratic blocks ; Biblical Flood and geological Deluge -- Worlds before Adam. Before the Earth's last revolution ; An age of strange reptiles ; The new "stratigraphy" ; Plotting the Earth's long-term history ; A slowly cooling Earth -- Disturbing a consensus. Geology and Genesis ; A disconcerting outsider ; Catastrophe versus uniformity ; The great "Ice Age" -- Human history in nature's history. Taming the Ice Age ; Men among the mammoths ; The question of evolution ; Human evolution -- Eventful deep history. "Geology and Genesis" marginalized ; The Earth's history in perspective ; Geology goes global ; Towards the origin of life ; The timescale of the Earth's history -- Global histories of the earth. Dating the Earth's history ; Continents and oceans ; Controversy over continental "drift" ; A new global tectonics -- One planet among many. Exploiting the Earth's chronology ; The return of catastrophes ; Unraveling the deepest past ; The Earth in cosmic context -- Conclusion. Earth's deep history : a retrospective ; Past events and their causes ; How reliable is knowledge of deep history? ; Geology and Genesis re-evaluated -- Appendix. Creationists out of their depth.;

520 a| Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways.;

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Earth's deep history : how it was discovered and why it matters / Martin J. S. Rudwick.

Author/creator	Rudwick, M. J. S. author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Description	ix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects	Earth sciences--History. Natural history--History. Religion and science.

Contents	Making history a science. The science of chronology ; Dating world history ; Periods of world history ; Noah's Flood as history ; The finite cosmos ; The threat of eternalism -- Nature's own antiquities. Historians and antiquaries ; Natural antiquities ; New ideas about fossils ; New ideas about history ; Fossils and the Flood ; Plotting the Earth's history -- Sketching big pictures. A new scientific genre ; A "sacred" theory? ; A slowly cooling Earth? ; A cyclic world-machine? ; Worlds ancient and modern? -- Expanding time and history. Fossils as nature's coins ; Strata as nature's archives ; Volcanoes as nature's monuments ; Natural history and the history of nature ; Guessing the Earth's timescale -- Bursting the limits of time. The reality of extinction ; The Earth's last revolution ; The present as a key to the past ; The testimony of erratic blocks ; Biblical Flood and geological Deluge -- Worlds before Adam. Before the Earth's last revolution ; An age of strange reptiles ; The new "stratigraphy" ; Plotting the Earth's long-term history ; A slowly cooling Earth -- Disturbing a consensus. Geology and Genesis ; A disconcerting outsider ; Catastrophe versus uniformity ; The great "Ice Age" -- Human history in nature's history. Taming the Ice Age ; Men among the mammoths ; The question of evolution ; Human evolution -- Eventful deep history. "Geology and Genesis" marginalized ; The Earth's history in perspective ; Geology goes global ; Towards the origin of life ; The timescale of the Earth's history -- Global histories of the earth. Dating the Earth's history ; Continents and oceans ; Controversy over continental "drift" ; A new global tectonics -- One planet among many. Exploiting the Earth's chronology ; The return of catastrophes ; Unraveling the deepest past ; The Earth in cosmic context -- Conclusion. Earth's deep history : a retrospective ; Past events and their causes ; How reliable is knowledge of deep history? ; Geology and Genesis re-evaluated -- Appendix. Creationists out of their depth.
Abstract	Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2014010242
ISBN	9780226203935 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN	022620393X (cloth : alkaline paper)
Standard identifier#	40024173224

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