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HUMN 4325 - FROZEN! The Climate Crisis of 1816 and Its Lessons for Today
James Hutton & William Smith - History of Geology
HUMN 4325 - FROZEN! The Climate Crisis of 1816 and Its Lessons for Today
Syllabus
Types of Sources
How to Evaluate Sources
How to Cite Sources
Library Resources
Non-Library Resources
Tambora Eruption of 1815
British Exploration of the North Pole & Role of Barrow
The Effects of Tambora in China
Erie Canal
History of Weather Instrumentation
Ice Cores as Proxy Data
James Hutton & William Smith - History of Geology
Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
The Literary Response to "The Year Without a Summer"
Luke Howard & Scientific Meteorology
Tree Rings as Proxy Data
Unknown Volcanic Eruption of 1808-1809
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Internet Resources
James Hutton: Theory of the Earth, Vol. 1 (1795)
The first volume lays out the main points of Hutton's theory of uniformitarianism. The other volumes consider data in support of his theory.
James Hutton: Theory of the Earth, Vol. 2
James Hutton: Theory of the Earth, Vol. 3
Suggested Reading
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
by
Martin J. S. Rudwick
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0226731138
Publication Date: 2007
Catastrophes and Earth History: The New Uniformitarianism
by
W. A. Berggren (Editor); John Van Couvering (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0691083290
Publication Date: 1984
The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856
by
Ralph O'Connor
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 022610320X
Publication Date: 2013
Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences
by
James Lawrence Powell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0231164483
Publication Date: 2014
The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
by
Martin J. S. Rudwick
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0226731014
Publication Date: 1985
A History of Geology
by
Gabriel Gohau
Call Number: 550.9 .G64 1990
ISBN: 0813516668
Publication Date: 1991
Introducing Sedimentology
by
Dorrik A. V. Stow; Stuart J. Jones
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1780460171
Publication Date: 2015
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by
Simon Winchester
Call Number: 550.92 .W56 2001
ISBN: 0061767905
Publication Date: 2009
The Student's Elements of Geology
by
Charles Lyell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1295685906
Publication Date: 2001
Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology
by
David R. Oldroyd
Call Number: 551.09 .O43 1996
ISBN: 0674883829
Publication Date: 1996
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
by
Martin J. S. Rudwick
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0226731294
Publication Date: 2010
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