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Craters, cosmos, and chronicles : a new theory of Earth / Herbert R. Shaw.

Title: Craters, cosmos, and chronicles : a new theory of Earth / Herbert R. Shaw.
Author: Shaw, H. R.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.

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xlv, 688 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / William Glen -- Prologue: Reverie, Obsession, and Algorithmic Natural Selection in Stalking the Nonlinear Paradigm in Science -- 1. Geographic Patterns of Impacts on Earth -- 2. Temporal Patterns of Impacts on Earth -- 3. Geometric Complexity and Nonlinear Processes in the Solar System -- 4. Chaotic Orbits and Nonlinear Resonances -- 5. Large- and Small-Scale Chaotic Crises, Intermittency, Universality, and the Big Picture -- 6. Spin-Orbit Resonances and Proximal Flight Control of Objects in the Celestial Reference Frame -- 7. Correlations with and Consequences of the Celestial Reference Frame: In Situ Astrogeology -- 8. Critical Self-Organization, Universality, Chaotic Crises, and the Celestial Reference Frame -- 9. Summary of Conclusions -- Epilogue: Copernican Craters and the Phases of the Moon -- Faraday, on the Fate of Hypotheses.

ISBN

0804721319 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^93031725^

OCLC

28708662

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