Historical geology: Methodology and metaphysics

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Turner
Keyword(s):  
Historical Geology

IMPLEMENTING TREE BUILDING INTO LARGE HISTORICAL GEOLOGY FLIPPED CLASSES

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Win N.F. McLaughlin ◽  
◽  
Eva Marie Biedron ◽  
Edward Byrd Davis ◽  
Samantha S.B. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Historical Geology ◽  
Tree Building

DEVELOPING RESEARCH BASED LABORATORIES FOR INTRODUCTORY PHYSICAL AND HISTORICAL GEOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna L. Faith ◽  
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Leslie Bernal ◽  
Jose Pablo Cervantes ◽  
Diane I. Doser
Keyword(s):  
Historical Geology

History of the Earth: An Introduction to Historical Geology

1961 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 536
Author(s):  
F. Dixey ◽  
Bernhard Kummel
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Geology

scholarly journals Trans-marine dispersal inferred from the saltwater tolerance of lizards from Taiwan

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0247009
Author(s):  
Min-Hao Hsu ◽  
Jhan-Wei Lin ◽  
Chen-Pan Liao ◽  
Jung-Ya Hsu ◽  
Wen-San Huang
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution ◽  
Current Distribution ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Lizard Species ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrates ◽  
Marine Dispersal ◽  
Historical Geology ◽  
Saltwater Tolerance ◽  
Hemidactylus Frenatus

Dehydration and hypersalinity challenge non-marine organisms crossing the ocean. The rate of water loss and saltwater tolerance thus determine the ability to disperse over sea and further influence species distribution. Surprisingly, this association between physiology and ecology is rarely investigated in terrestrial vertebrates. Here we conducted immersion experiments to individuals and eggs of six lizard species differently distributed across Taiwan and the adjacent islands to understand if the physiological responses reflect the geographical distribution. We found that Plestiodon elegans had the highest rate of water loss and the lowest saltwater tolerance, whereas Eutropis longicaudata and E. multifasciata showed the lowest rate of water loss and the highest saltwater tolerance. Diploderma swinhonis, Hemidactylus frenatus, and Anolis sagrei had medium measurements. For the eggs, only the rigid-shelled eggs of H. frenatus were incubated successfully after treatments. While, the parchment-shelled eggs of E. longicaudata and D. swinhonis lost or gained water dramatically in the immersions without any successful incubation. Combined with the historical geology of the islands and the origin areas of each species, the inferences of the results largely explain the current distribution of these lizards across Taiwan and the adjacent islands, pioneerly showing the association between physiological capability and species distribution.

Historical Geology

1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. O. Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
Historical Geology

Uniformitarianism and Unity

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Oreskes
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Continental Drift ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Historical Geology ◽  
The One

William Bowie settled on a theoretical position that accounted for isostasy and the jigsaw-puzzle fit of the continents but ignored the facts of historical geology. And yet, as we have seen, he interacted and corresponded with historical geologists, particularly with Charles Schuchert (1858–1942). Of all the American geologists who ultimately rejected the theory of drift, Schuchert was perhaps the one who engaged the problem the most seriously. As America’s foremost historical geologist, Schuchert was well placed to argue the case for or against drift, and he grappled with the question of continental connections for at least fifteen years. In the end, however, Schuchert, like Bowie, rejected continental drift. Just as Bowie argued against drift because of beliefs grounded in the exigencies of geodetic practice, Schuchert ultimately argued against drift because of beliefs grounded in the exigencies of geological practice. For Bowie, the practice was Pratt isostasy, for Schuchert, it was Uniformitarianism. Charles Schuchert rejected continental drift because he interpreted it to be incompatible with Uniformitarianism. However, he did not reject it because he could not see drift taking place, as might be supposed. Uniformitarianism has meant many things to many people, and to Charles Schuchert in the late 1920s, it meant—rightly or wrongly—an essentially steady-state earth, whose details were forever changing but whose large-scale patterns and relationships remained the same. And this seemed to him to deny the possibility of major changes in the configuration of the continents. Moreover—and perhaps more importantly—for Schuchert, as for most historical geologists, Uniformitarianism was a form of scientific practice, a means of doing historical geology. It was, in fact, the primary means of doing historical geology. For Schuchert, abandoning Uniformitarianism was nearly tantamount to abandoning historical geology altogether. Not surprisingly, he declined to do this. Like William Bowie, Charles Schuchert settled on a theoretical position that preserved his scientific practice. But whereas Bowie’s theoretical ideas had little staying power, the alternative that Schuchert embraced influenced a generation of geologists to believe that drift was not so much impossible as unnecessary.

Taphonomic approaches to time resolution in fossil assemblages: Introduction

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Kidwell ◽  
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Time Resolution ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Taxonomic Group ◽  
Relative Time ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Paleontological Society ◽  
Historical Geology ◽  
Fossil Assemblages ◽  
Short Courses

Since their inception in 1978, the annual short courses sponsored by the Paleontological Society have aimed to broaden and to enhance the professional education of paleontologists, including students new to the field. The 1993 short course continues in that tradition, but differs from many previous courses in focussing not on a taxonomic group but on a broader aspect of the fossil record, namely the time resolution of fossil assemblages. This seemed an especially good topic for a short course because questions of absolute and relative time – how old? how fast? how synchronously? – pervade paleontology and historical geology in general.

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