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Description:
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The course should demonstrate the chronological development of ideas in geology, their mutual controversies and opposition, resistance of old ideas and their gradual submission to the newer ones. Pre-scientific epoch (antiquity, Middle ages). Neptunists ? vulcanists ? plutonists. Catastrophists ? uniformitarianists. Ice ages (glaciations). Age of the Earth. Geosynclinal theory ? plate tectonics (including fixists and mobilists in the Alpine tectonics). Constraints of the uniformitarian approach and its role in other natural sciences. History of geology in Croatia and neighbouring countries.
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Literature:
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- Hallam, A.: Great geological controversies, Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Hallam, A.: Revolutions in Earth History. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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