Catastrophism: Asteroids, Comets, and Other Dynamic Events in Earth History

by Richard Huggett

Book Overview

One of the most dramatic intellectual events of the last decade has been the stunning re-emergence of the catastrophist paradigm in the biological and earth sciences From killer asteroids to emergent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859841295
• ISBN13: 9781859841297
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good background for the Young Earth Verus Old Earth debate.

The author Richard Hugget is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester and his book is very scholarly and detailed and reads like an advanced college lecture. It is well written and interesting in its own way, but it is definitely a dry subject and it was a bit of push to get myself to finish reading the book, at least I didn't have to worry about falling asleep in class. If you are interested in the history of Catastrophism, how it was replaced by uniformitarianism and how it has come back in the form of New Catastrophism, this is probably the best book on the subject. The level of detail and accuracy was above anything else I have read on the subject. It is also interesting to see how religion effected the debate in geology and how it in turn has been effected by the shifts in the Geological view of Catastrophism. (only the geological side is covered in this book) The history of Catastrophism is a large part of the back drop in front of which the on going drama of the conflict between fundamentalists and scientists is acted out, reading this book gives one the historical background on the debate and make better sense of old arguments and repeating history.

Please create an audio abridged version

To the publisher I would appreciate it if the publisher could produce an audio adaptation of this book. I would love to listen to this while I drive to work and to let my 16 month old son listen to it as a bedtime story. My goal is to expose him to some of my favorite passions, maths, sciences, physics, geophysics, paleontology, astronomy, electronics, photonics, new science and discoveries etc. The more audio books you can produce of the above genre the more I will support you. Arnold D Veness