... for Sedimentary Geology) 2018 The genomic revolution has been exhilarating as it probes the genetic material of all organisms on Earth, making possible reconstructions of phylogeny and developmental regulation controlled by gene networks ( Koboldt et al. 2013 ). Something about it has always been...

.... Consider first Allègre’s treatment of the effect of the acceptance of plate tectonics upon geology. “No doubt plate tectonics’ role in unifying the geological sciences has become just as important as the theory itself” (p. 122). The idea is not new. When J. Tuzo Wilson proclaimed in 1968 that a revolution...

... temperature processes for which the isotopic fractionation is small 8 . Box 1.2 Text from Figure 1.5 The Allegresque History of Chemical Geodynamics ∼ the Tenth Anniversary Revision, 2007 A.C.A. ∼ Anno Claude Allegre. C.E. N Common Era Lunatic Industrial Revolution ∼ Members of the Lunatic...

... with God . Chinese Journal of Disaster Reduction 11 : 15 – 18 (in Chinese ). Ren , L. X. , Wei , J. and Zhang , Q. Y. 2007 . Shiyan Tao: outstanding contributor of theory and practice of contemporary atmospheric science in China . Glorious History of the Chinese Geophysical...

..., with twelve or more working hours per day. The bourgeoisie did not accept the privileges of the nobility, but was not ready to share power with the working classes. The situation became explosive and ended in the 1848 revolution. That failed, but various events such as the Prussian–Austrian war in 1866...

... by the conservation biology community, because they are beyond personal experience (Dietl et al. 2019) and the many biological and social facets of conservation biology research. Importantly, a baseline is more than just an archive of a glorious or desirable past, it is a rich source of ecological information...

.... In 1900, the St. Petersburg Nedelya newspaper published a report from Sterlitamak, which stated some early indications of oil potential in the Bashkirian part of the Ural region. However, they received no further confirmation until the Great October Socialist Revolution. A detailed description...

... and returned to Edinburgh, where he became a valued member of the remarkable group of men who founded the Royal Society of Edinburgh and made the city an unrivalled intellectual centre of the age. Edinburgh was a capital without the distractions of king and parliament. When the Industrial Revolution began...

... in the Earthquake Office was “Technically Responsible Person.” During the Cultural Revolution, it was important to distinguish technically responsible persons from the higher-ranking politically responsible persons. The provincial Earthquake Office had frequent “group discussion” sessions to synthesize...

... theory ‘attracted comparatively little attention among somnolent believers in a glorious dream.’ ‘I attributed this,’ he continued, ‘to the well-known slowness of even the scientific world to confess a great delusion, and to a special indisposition in England to admit that a fatal breach had been made...

...), met with obstacles (in the guise of the English society of their time, a loss in creative force, the aftermaths of the French Revolution, etc.), suffered (the loss of friends and lovers), had Romantic and often tragic entanglements, and died in exile while still following their calls. 23...

... of showing the revolutions that the wheel made as it was held horizontally and was propelled by the water, that struck it at right angle in its submerged portion. In such position, the index made thirty-eight revolutions in the time of one hundred swings of a pendulum eight inches and six eighths long. 18...

... apparent omission is an overview of the historiography of Lyell and his work in the years since his death, which would have provided valuable background to many of the papers. Chapter five switches to the post-World-War-II revolution in seismology. In the pre-war decades most developments were state...

... diversity dependent on temperature or sea level, or did the rise of this dinosaur group have any impacts through competition or predation on some other groups? There have been revolutions too in the fields of dinosaurian paleobiology and behavior. First to come under study were mechanical functional...

... tectonics’ as it was dubbed by Dan McKenzie. 10 Moreover, Wilson proclaimed all this to be a scientific revolution, invoking language that Thomas Kuhn had applied to scientific progress of physics and astronomy. 11 I subsequently read Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions and came to be very...

... in the twentieth-century revolution that dealt a fatal blow to the fixist Earth. This selective survey concentrates on conceptual evolution, emphasizing early investigators, who had the least amount of geologic background, the most primitive field conditions, and the hardest job dealing with the biases of the time...

... of a designer (the watchmaker)—God, magnificent and glorious. Winchell subscribed to a gradual, historical development of the earth, beginning with the nebular condensation (Spencer’s nebular theory). The earth has developed historically, he said and, as he explained in Sketches , the earlier stages...

...Martin J. S. Rudwick; A. M. Celâl Şengör ABSTRACT To the memory of Wilhelm von Humboldt Bursting the Limits of Time , subtitled The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution , by Martin Rudwick embodies an attempt to show how historical geology emerged at the end of the eighteenth...

... is divided into eight chapters. Chapter One, “the Plate Tectonics Revolution,” is a nicely encapsulated summary of an event that was earthshaking in its own way. This chapter will be of most interest to science historians. Chapters Two (“Sizing Up Earthquakes“), Three (“Earthquake Interactions”), and Four...

...; and various unpleasantness I considered to be a temporary feature of the revolution ( Petrascheck 1988 , pp. 13–14). Blindness towards the evil potential of national-socialism was not only common among German or Austrian nationalists but also clouded the judgement of many future victims of the new...