Alfred Wegener : science, exploration, and the theory of continental drift / by Greene, Mott T., 1945-

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Alfred Wegener : science, exploration, and the theory of continental drift / by Greene, Mott T., 1945-

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Ending in Ice : the revolutionary Idea and tragic expedition of Alfred Wegener / by McCoy, Roger M.

A geological miscellany /

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Helgoland marine research.

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M train / by Smith, Patti

Table of Contents: “…Stations -- Café Ino -- Changing channels -- Animal crackers -- The flea draws blood -- Hill of beans -- Clock with no hands -- The well -- Wheel of fortune -- How I lost the wind-up bird -- Her name was Sandy -- Vecchia zimarra -- Mu -- Tempest air demons -- A dream of Alfred Wegener -- Road to Larache -- Covered ground -- How Linden kills the thing she loves -- Valley of the lost -- The hour of noon.…”

Great scientists / by Fortey, Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Aristotle -- Archimedes -- Zhang Heng -- Alhazen -- Roger Bacon -- Galileo Galilei -- William Harvey -- Robert Hooke -- Isaac Newton -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- Benjamin Franklin -- Joseph Banks -- Georges Cuvier -- Charles Darwin -- Charles Babbage -- Michael Faraday -- Thomas Edison -- Louis Pasteur -- Dmitry Mendeleyev -- Marie Curie -- Ernest Rutherford -- Albert Einstein -- Alfred Wegener -- Edwin Hubble -- Crick and Watson -- Alan Turing -- James Lovelock -- Dorothy Hodgkin -- Richard Feynman -- Stephen Hawking -- Science and the future -- Milestones in science -- Find out more -- The Nobel Prize.…”

Continental drift /

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Continental drift.

Table of Contents: “…Gaskell -- 12. Memories of Alfred Wegener…”
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Learn how the continents broke apart from the Pangea landmass and moved to their present positions /

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A discussion of some of the evidence supporting continental drift on Earth /

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The day the world exploded : the earthshaking catastrophe at Krakatoa / by Winchester, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Understanding volcanoes: Legends -- Alfred Wegener -- Science -- Some famous volcanoes -- About Krakatoa -- Business empire: Spice trade -- Dutch East Indies Company -- Batavia -- Amazing century: Discovery and invention -- Wallace line -- Telegraph -- Early warnings: May 1883 -- Perboewatan erupts -- Tourism -- Island deathwatch -- Circus elephant -- Krakatoa dies: Sunday, August 26, 1883 -- Monday, August 27, 1883 -- Impact near -- And impact far -- Reuters reports -- Shock waves -- Death rafts -- Weather changes -- Life returns: Rakata -- Rising up -- Island grows -- Krakatau today.…”
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Eureka! : the most amazing scientific discoveries of all time / by Goldsmith, Mike, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Scientific discoveries: where and when -- Seeing the invisible : Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- A cure for a killer disease : Louis Pasteur -- Discovering penicillin : Alexander Fleming -- The fight against disease : Gertrude Elion -- Mapping the body : William Harvey -- The secret of life : Francis Crick and James Watson -- Laws of the universe : Isaac Newton -- Experiments in space and time : Albert Einstein -- Investigating radioactivity : Marie Curie -- The periodic table : Dmitri Mendeleev -- The power of electricity : Michael Faraday -- Naming the natural world : Carl Linnaeus -- The theory of evolution : Charles Darwin -- Unmasking dinosaurs : Richard Owen -- Drifting continents : Alfred Wegener -- Defining our solar system : Nicolaus Copernicus -- Looking into space : Galileo Galilei -- Discovering galaxies : Edwin Hubble -- The big bang : Georges Lemaître -- Glossary.…”

Eureka! : scientific breakthroughs that changed the world / by Horvitz, Leslie Alan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A sudden flash of light -- A breath of immoral air: Joseph Priestley and the discovery of oxygen -- Epiphany at Clapham Road: Friedrich Kekule and the discovery of the structure of carbon compounds -- A visionary from Siberia: Dmitry Mendeleyev and the invention of the periodic table -- The birth of amazing discoveries: Isaac Newton and the theory of gravity -- The forgotten inventor: Philo Farnsworth and the development of television -- A faint shadow of its former self: Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin -- A flash of light in Franklin Park: Charles Townes and the invention of the laser -- The pioneer of Pangaea: Alfred Wegener and the theory of continental drift -- Solving the mystery of mysteries: Charles Darwin and the origin of species -- Unraveling the secret of life: James Watson and Francis Crick and the discovery of the double helix -- Broken teacups and infinite coastlines: Benoit Mandelbrot and the invention of fractal geometry.…”
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One day the ice will reveal all its dead / by Dudman, Clare

Inspiring STEM minds : biographies and activities for elementary classrooms / by Isabelle, Aaron D., Valle, Nataly Z.

Table of Contents: “…Alfred Nobel -- S.8. Alfred Wegener -- Mathematics -- M.1. William Playfair -- M.2. …”
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Inspiring STEM minds : biographies and activities for elementary classrooms / by Isabelle, Aaron D., Valle, Nataly Z.

Table of Contents: “…Alfred Nobel ; S.8. Alfred Wegener -- Chapter 3: Mathematics ; M.1. William Playfair ; M.2. …”

The story of the Earth in 25 rocks : tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them / by Prothero, Donald R.

Table of Contents: “…: evidence in a grain of sand -- Stromatolites : microbial condos : cyanobacteria and the oldest life -- Banded iron formation : mountains of iron : the Earth's early atmosphere -- Turbidites : Archean sediments and submarine landslides -- Diamictites : tropical glaciers and the Snowball Earth -- Exotic terranes : paradox in rocks : wandering fossils and traveling landmasses -- Jigsaw-puzzle bedrock : Alfred Wegener and continental drift -- Chalk : the Cretaceous Seaway and the greenhouse planet -- The iridium layer : the death of the dinosaurs -- Lodestones : how paleomagic launched plate tectonics -- Blueschists : the puzzle of subduction zones -- Transform faults : earthquake! …”

The story of the Earth in 25 rocks : tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them / by Prothero, Donald R.

Table of Contents: “…evidence in a grain of sand -- Stromatolites : microbial condos : cyanobacteria and the oldest life -- Banded iron formation : mountains of iron : the Earth's early atmosphere -- Turbidites : archean sediments and submarine landslides -- Diamictites : tropical glaciers and the snowball Earth -- Exotic terranes : paradox in rocks : wandering fossils and traveling landmasses -- Jigsaw-puzzle bedrock : Alfred Wegener and continental drift -- Chalk : the cretaceous seaway and greenhouse planet -- The iridium layer : the death of the dinosaurs -- Lodestones : how paleomagic launched plate tectonics -- Blueschists : the puzzle of subduction zones -- Transform faults : earthquake! …”
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The Routledge handbook of ocean space /

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