00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-1685594773861651163 Buklod 20090109084525.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 160705s1975 xx a r |||1 0|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00004569104 BAG rda eng QE 35 C66 1975 Controversies in the earth sciences a reader [compiled by] Richard Cowen, Jere H. Lipps. St. Paul, Missouri West Pub. Co. ©1975. x, 439 pages illustrations 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-439). Section 1: Origin of the earth and moon -- Introduction -- Formation of the earth-moon system / A.G. W. Cameron -- Apollo 11: implications for the early history of the solar system / J.A. O'Keefe -- Origin of the moon by capture and its consequences / S.F. Singer -- Homogeneous accumulation of the earth from the primitive solar nebula / K.K. Turekian and S.P. Clark -- Inhomogeneous earth / P.J.S. -- Formation on the earth's core / D.L. Anderson and T.C. Hanks -- Moon-making in three dimensions / W.H. McC. -- The origin of the moon / D.L. Anderson -- Is the moon hot or cold? D.L. Anderson and T.C. Hanks -- Dynamically plausible hypotheses of lunar origin / W.M. Kaula and A.W. Harris -- Update on Mars: clues about the early solar system / W. D. Metz -- Section 2: Plate tectonics and hot spots -- Introduction -- Plate tectonics: the geophysics of the earth's surface / A. Hammond -- Plate tectonics (II): mountain building and continental geology /A. Hammond -- Plate motions and deep mantle convection / W. Jason Morgan -- Plate tectonics: do the hot spots really stand still? /W.D. Metz -- Relative and latitudinal motion of Atlantic hot spots / K.Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, and J.T. Wilson -- And now the rolling mantle / P.J.S. -- Does the mantle roll? / R.B. Hargraves and R.A. Duncan -- Hot spots must move / D.D. -- Relative motion of hot spot in the mantle / P. Molnar and T. Atwater -- Section 3: Plate tectonics and the fossil record -- Introduction -- Global tectonics and the fossil record / J.W. Valentine and E.M. Moores -- Taxonomic diversity during the Phanerozoic / D.M. Raup -- Phanerozoic taxonomic diversity - a test of alternate models / J. W. Valentine -- Lithospheric plate motions, sea level changes and climatic and ecological consequences / J.D. Hays and W.C. Pitman -- Seafloor spreading theory and the odyssey of the green turtle / A. Carr and P.J. Coleman -- Section 4: Origin of life -- Introduction -- Summary of the main argument /L.E. Orgel -- Directed panspermia / F.H. C. Crick and L.E. Orgel -- The zoo hypothesis / J.A. Ball -- Section 5: Evolution and extinction -- Introduction -- The infra-Cambrian glaciation and the origin of the Cambrian fauna / M.J.S. Rudwick -- Fossils, early life, and atmospheric history / A.G. Fischer -- Cope's rule and precambrian and early Cambrian invertebrates / D'Nicol -- Oxygen-collagen priority and the early metazoan fossil record / K.M. Towe -- Onthe development of metaphytes and metazoans / J. W. Schoptf, B.N. Haugh, R.E. Molnar and D.F. Satterthwait -- An ecological theory for the sudden origin of multicellular life in the late precambrian / S. M. Stanley -- Permo-triassic extinctions / F.H.T. Rhodes -- Extinction of perched faunas / J.G. Johnson -- Section 6: Man -- Introduction -- !Kung hunter-gatherers: feminism, diet and birth control / G.B. Kolata -- The natural history and evolutionary future of mankind / G.E. Stebbins -- Mineral resource estimates and public policy / V.E. McKelvey -- Human population and the global environment / J.P. Holdren and P.R. Ehrlich. Earth sciences Addresses, essays, lectures. Cowen, Richard 1940- . compiler. Lipps, Jere H. 1939- . compiler. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QE 35 C66 1975 Book