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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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- Description
- xlv, 688 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library