portada Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History (en Inglés)

Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Claude Albritton

Editorial

Springer

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

221

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6x1.3 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9789401091480

Categorías

Enciclopedias y obras de consulta
Ciencia: cuestiones generales
Papelería, artículos de escritorio

Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History (en Inglés)

Claude Albritton (Autor) · Springer · Tapa Blanda

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Year by year the Earth sciences grow more diverse, with an inevitable increase in the degree to which rampant specialization isolates the practitioners of an ever larger number of subfields. An increasing emphasis on sophisticated mathematics, physics and chemistry as well as the use of advanced technology have set up barriers often impenetrable to the uninitiated. Ironically, the potential value of many specialities for other, often non-contiguous ones has also increased. What is at the present time quiet, unseen work in a remote corner of our discipline, may tomorrow enhance, even revitalize some entirely different area. The rising flood of research reports has drastically cut the time we have available for free reading. The enormous proliferation of journals expressly aimed at small, select audiences has raised the threshold of access to a large part of the literature so much that many of us are unable to cross it. This, most would agree, is not only unfortunate but downright dangerous, limiting by sheer bulk of paper or difficulty of compre- hension, the flow of information across the Earth sciences because, after all it is just one earth that we all study, and cross fertilization is the key to progress. If one knows where to obtain much needed data or inspiration, no effort is too great. It is when we remain unaware of its existence (perhaps even in the office next door) that stagnation soon sets in.