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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
Author: Alan Cutler
Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed by Stephen Jay Gould as "the founder of geology," solved the puzzle, looking directly at the clues left in the layers of the Earth. Paradoxically, at the same time his ideas were undermining the Bible&#...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780452285460
ISBN-10: 0452285461
Publication Date: 4/27/2004
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Plume
Book Type: Paperback
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