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169 pages of results. 471. Clockwork [Books] [de Grazia books]
... history. The problems of time came in two batches. First there was the historical batch, epitomized in V. s Ages in Chaos. Second, there was the geological batch, which could also be epitomized in V. s Earth in Upheaval. Let us see what V. did with time in both regards. V. aligned ... catastrophes: cultural quantavolutions coincide with natural quantavolutions. For a century scholars have been playing at quantavolutionary theory unwittingly by using catastrophic age-breakers. It reminds me of how some early geologists tried to dismiss the word "strata" because that implied discontinuities, and discontinuities implied you know what... The other point to stress is that the end ...
472. SIS Silver Jubilee Conference: Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... in Collision was to be viewed seriously how could two major planets run riot in the inner part of the solar system. If Earth in Upheaval was correct in showing that geological events, the time scales and the causes of depositions and upheavals were suspect then conventional geological interpretation had to be suspect. There was a linkage between both weaknesses. ... this brilliant insight will shortly become commonplace in our understanding of the transition to the Holocene. The catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea during the Neolithic, as argued by the geologist/oceanographer team Ryan and Pitman. The massive upheavals and climate change which destroyed the Early Bronze Age civilizations of the Near East (c . 2300 BC conventional dating ...
473. Editorial [Journals] [SIS Review]
... particularly badly affected copies would like to return them to the Secretary (overseas members need only return the offending pages), we will be glad to provide replacements. CONTACT GEOLOGY: Mr. J. A. West, Garreg Fawr, Porthyrhyd, Llanwrda, Dyfed, wishes to contact a qualified field geologist acquainted with erosion patterns to help ... the evaluation of photographic data. ARTISTS: With a view to improving the presentation of the Review, the Editor requests the assistance of any members with a flair for representational art, able to realise specific requirements. Please enclose samples of work: ideal illustrations at this stage would be line drawings. ORIGIN OF RELIGION: Gordon B. Dow ...
474. The Capture of Luna (Life History of Our Earth) [Books]
... . There are several other submarine river valleys in tropical Africa, and elsewhere. It may, perhaps, seem strange to find mythological material mentioned as proofs' in a geological book, but the temptation for me who am really a mythologist is too great to be resisted. I mean the loss of Atlantis, a traditional island of generous ... wet conditions. Trees become stunted and disappear, and their leaves frequently show damage by frost. This great climatic change seems to have happened so suddenly that Swedish and German geologists (Sernander, Andersson, Kossinna) refer to it as a Klimasturz, a sudden climatic breakdown. But though they record the undoubted fact, they cannot find a ...
475. Charting Imaginary Worlds: Pole Shifts, Ice Sheets, and Ancient Sea Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... the match. But that does not prove that the map was in fact constructed in just that way. Hapgood excuses any residual errors as the result of poor copying or geological change. He excludes the possibility that the source maps may be modern, and that the errors may lie in the originals themselves. He also excludes the possibility that ... indicate no such thing. A careless reader might assume that Hapgood was merely repeating conclusions reached by Hough, or matters of common scientific knowledge. But Hapgood, neither a geologist nor an oceanographer, made this assertion on no other authority but his own. Hough himself never claimed that the fine-grained, well-sorted sediment was fluvial (borne by rivers ...
476. Retrospect [Journals] [SIS Review]
... who used PTOLEMY in his calculations. Mulholland omitted to refer properly to the evidence of ancient sundials and water clocks found in Egypt. Mulholland lightheartedly dispensed with the records of geological evidence collected in Earth in Upheaval without referring even once to the book. CARL SAGAN was fifteen when Worlds in Cohesion was published, and twenty-five years later he admitted ... shadow over my scientific honesty; references to printed statements of Professors LLOYD MOTZ (astronomer), V. BARGMANN (physicist), and H. H. HESS (geologist), testifying to my priorities in predicting, were omitted. Then it was explained that I would see neither Sagan's second paper of three thousand words that he had ...
... for Geophysical Research, Vol. 87, (1982), pp. 7763-7771 and showed that high surface and crustal temperatures on Venus would erase all large impact craters in geologically short times. George E. McGill, et. al. in Venus, (Arizona University 1983), p. 95-96, discussed Solomon's work: "Creep ... according to latest radar results. And an appreciable amount of the planet's interior heat may escape through these lava flows, rather than through the large volcanoes and rift valleys that geologists have known for some years. "A team of American researchers from Cornell and Brown universities, and the National Astronomy and Ionospheric Center, used the large Arecibo radio ...
478. Briefings [Journals] [SIS Review]
... intended not simply as an explanation of the mass extinction of species at the end of the Cretaceous: it's meant also to account for the four earlier mass extinctions in the geological record. The Alvarezes, as good scientists should be, are anxious that any explanation they put forward for what happened at the end of the Cretaceous should be the ... tested. Nobody at this stage can tell whether the theory the Alvarezes have launched will stay afloat or eventually sink. But if they can capture the interest of others - geologists and palaeontologists in particular - there is no doubt that a lot more will be known about the details of the Cretaceous - Tertiary extinction. To travel, so to ...
479. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and began his talk by producing a first-edition copy of the Rev. William Buckland's book, Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures and Diluvial Gravel and Other Geological Phenomena Attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge. This book (the original is titled in Latin) was published in 1823 and reflects the opinion of the time that ... to change cyclically, with periods varying from tens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years. Combining them gives a complex curve which still taxes the ingenuity of geologists and astronomers who are attempting to fit it to the observational data. A more basic and serious problem for Ice Age theories, however, is that there is no ...
480. Thomas Gold and dust in craters [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... ," says Veverka, who is chair of Cornell's astronomy department. Gold's controversial theory dates back to stormy debates that continued through the 1950s into the early 1970s on the geology of the moon's impact craters and their flat, dust-filled floors. Gold himself had written his first paper on the subject in 1955. And in the late 1960s his ... would lift up material the size of a brick, but I can understand processes that would lift up 50-micron-sized grains," says Gold. This contradicted the view of many geologists, who believed that lunar craters typically were filled either by material ejected by meteoroid and asteroid impacts or by lava. However, says Gold, the smoothing and filling ...
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