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Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science
Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 464 pages, 22 halftones. 80 line illus. BIC Classification: RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously ... Read more
The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691637648
SKU
V9780691637648
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Reviews for Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science
"Informative, interesting, and provocative, and, as a personal history of the workings of a science, it is superb."
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