Cataclysms and Earth History: The Development of Diluvialism
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This book explores the development of ideas about enormous floods, both gradual and catastrophic, and the role of floods in fashioning the Earth's surface. Floods of immense size are recorded in ancient myths and classical writings. Renaissance scholars believed that sea shells found on mountains were relics of Noah's Flood, and natural philosophers during the Restoration and Enlightenment proposed elaborate theories of the Earth which accounted for...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198287135
ISBN13:9780198287131
Release Date:December 1989
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"
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