Cataclysms and Earth History: The Development of Diluvialism

by Richard Huggett

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"