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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Earth’s Interior, Oceans and Continents
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Front Matter
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Applied Geology
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This book by Jean Dercourt and Jacques Paquet is over, no sooner have the past ideas been finally an excellent introduction to the Earth Sciences. It is assimilated than new perspectives open up which addressed, however, not simply to those who follow encompass both the Earth and the other planets in these particular disciplines but, equally, to all those the Solar System. The scientific study of the Earth, who are interested in the Natural Sciences in the and now the planets as well, has therefore become widest sense. an intellectual necessity. Who, indeed, could not look beyond the mere Clear, precise and up to date, this book provides appearance of the world as it exists today when its the necessary basis for this task. If, within these geological framework, at first sight static, has been pages, readers do not find answers to all their shown to be alive? What conclusions can be drawn questions, they will obtain, at the very least, a way without recalling that the landscapes so familiar to to formulate them. Once the question can be us are no more than a fleeting episode in an properly framed, the answer is never far away. unfolding story of great complexity but precise This work by Dercourt and Paquet provides an meaning? Who could leave aside the search for this excellent introduction both to the Earth Sciences meaning? and to the Natural Sciences, and an excellent The Earth Sciences have made a major contribu opportunity for intellectual development.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geology Principles & Methods
Authors: Jean Dercourt, Jacques Paquet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4956-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Graham & Trotman 1985
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4956-0Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 384
Number of Illustrations: 484 b/w illustrations
Topics: Structural Geology