Full title: Craters, cosmos, and chronicles : a new theory of earth / Herbert R. Shaw.

Author/creator: Shaw, H. R.

Date: 1994..

Call Numbers: T0390096

Record Identifier: 74VKRD23Ke4b

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xlv, 688 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., Foreword / William Glen -- Prologue: Reverie, Obsession, and Algorithmic Natural Selection in Stalking the Nonlinear Paradigm in Science -- 1. Geographic Patterns of Impacts on Earth -- 2. Temporal Patterns of Impacts on Earth -- 3. Geometric Complexity and Nonlinear Processes in the Solar System -- 4. Chaotic Orbits and Nonlinear Resonances -- 5. Large- and Small-Scale Chaotic Crises, Intermittency, Universality, and the Big Picture -- 6. Spin-Orbit Resonances and Proximal Flight Control of Objects in the Celestial Reference Frame -- 7. Correlations with and Consequences of the Celestial Reference Frame: In Situ Astrogeology -- 8. Critical Self-Organization, Universality, Chaotic Crises, and the Celestial Reference Frame -- 9. Summary of Conclusions -- Epilogue: Copernican Craters and the Phases of the Moon -- Faraday, on the Fate of Hypotheses.

Publishers: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-641) and index. Transferred from N551.7001175/1.

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DDC: 551.7001175

MMS ID: 991023017699702626