Southern limestones under western eyes the modern world evolving in southern Australia
Science, the growth of reliable knowledge, became a major triumph of the European Enlightenment in the seventeenth century, under the guise of 'natural philosophy': investigating what the earth and universe are made of and how things work. It took another century for the parallel subject &...
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Canberra, ACT, Australia
ANU Press
2023, [2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-386)
- Introduction
- 1. What are rock relationships?
- 2. Discovering earth history and calibrating deep time
- 3. Exploration and organic evolution
- 4. Microfossils: ultimate archives of biogeohistory
- 5. Drilled ocean and drifting continent
- 6. The great transformation and the last greenhouse
- 7. The Palaeogene Australo-Antarctic Gulf: tropical swamps in winter darkness
- 8. Farewell, hothouse and farewell, Australo-Antarctic Gulf
- 9. Hello, Southern Ocean: into the arid zone and into the Neogene
- 10. Contingency, consilience and historicity are the guts of biogeohistory
- Epilogue: eternal tensions revisited