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Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science
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Full Title:
Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science
Contributors:
By (Author) Kenneth Jinghwa Hs
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
551.468
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
464
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
624g
Description
The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first c
Reviews
"Informative, interesting, and provocative, and, as a personal history of the workings of a science, it is superb."--Science
