Mysteries of the deep: how seafloor drilling expeditions revolutionized our understanding of earth history /
Powell, James Lawrence, 1936-
Mysteries of the deep: how seafloor drilling expeditions revolutionized our understanding of earth history / James Lawrence Powell. - x, 274 pages illustrations 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-261) and index.
Introduction -- The voyage of HMS Challenger -- Coral reefs : rainforests of the sea -- Probing the seafloor -- Nothing beats a map -- Do seafloors spread and continents drift? -- Continental drift to plate tectonics -- Hotspots in the mantle -- When the Mediterranean dried up -- The glacial theory -- The astronomical pacemaker -- Astrochronology -- Crater of doom -- The hot, deep biosphere -- The seventh continent -- Eocene doomsday -- Human evolution -- Looking back and ahead.
"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history"-- Provided by publisher.
9780262048927
2023017995
Submarine geology
Oceanography
Ocean bottom
Geology--Research
QE39 / POW 2024
551.46/8
Mysteries of the deep: how seafloor drilling expeditions revolutionized our understanding of earth history / James Lawrence Powell. - x, 274 pages illustrations 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-261) and index.
Introduction -- The voyage of HMS Challenger -- Coral reefs : rainforests of the sea -- Probing the seafloor -- Nothing beats a map -- Do seafloors spread and continents drift? -- Continental drift to plate tectonics -- Hotspots in the mantle -- When the Mediterranean dried up -- The glacial theory -- The astronomical pacemaker -- Astrochronology -- Crater of doom -- The hot, deep biosphere -- The seventh continent -- Eocene doomsday -- Human evolution -- Looking back and ahead.
"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history"-- Provided by publisher.
9780262048927
2023017995
Submarine geology
Oceanography
Ocean bottom
Geology--Research
QE39 / POW 2024
551.46/8