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Earth Sciences History

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Great Maps in the History of Geology


The first North Carolina geological maps: Denison Olmsted and Elisha Mitchell, 1821-1842

Michael S. Smith and Anne Carter Witt


Recording the facts: Henry De la Beche's maps as data repositories

Renee M. Clary


Plate 6 of The Geology of Russia: Product of a 'Genius of Combination'

John A. Diemer


George Bellas Greenough's General Sketch of the Physical and Geological Features of British India (1854, 1855): Its production, distribution, variants and survivorship

Christopher Toland


The railroad surveys (1853-1855): Early geological mapping in California by William Blake and Thomas Antisell

Kenneth R. Aalto


The geological map of Brazil, 1938-1940: The first geology of Brazil written by Brazilians

Maria Margaret Lopes


Physiographic landform cartography: A comparative analysis of contributions 351-362 by Armin K. Lobeck (1921) and Erwin Raisz (1939)

Jason E. VanHorn


Mapping Basutoland: Correspondence between geologists Gordon Murray Stockley and Alexander Loge du Toit (1938-1946)

Sharad Master


 Volunteered Papers

Gender, place and the validation of knowledge: The transnational debate about 386-409 the effects of the Chilean earthquakes of 1822 and 1835 on land elevation

Natalia Gándara-Chacana


Albert C. Koch's Missourium and the debate over the contemporaneity of humans and Pleistocene megafauna of North America

R. Bruce McMillan 


 Book Reviews edited by Paul Lucier

David Bainbridge. Paleontology: An Illustrated History

Reviewed by Warren D. Allmon


Lukas Rieppel. Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle

Reviewed by Elizabeth D. Jones


Journal Info

  • HESS membership includes a subscription to Earth Sciences History, including access to back issues.
  • The  journal publishes historical work on all areas of the earth sciences. 
  • The  journal encourages diverse approaches to historical study: biography,  history of ideas, social history, and histories of institutions,      organizations, and techniques. 
  • Articles  are peer reviewed. 
  • Issues  are published twice per year. 
  • The  journal is included in ISI Web of Knowledge products. 
  • ISSN:  0736-623X (print), 1944-6187 (online).

 

Back Issues

To access back issues of the journal, go to: https://meridian.allenpress.com/esh

Manuscript Submission

Journal Scope: 

Manuscripts are welcomed in the following areas:

  • Historical  work on all areas of the earth sciences — geology, geography, geophysics,      oceanography, paleontology, meteorology, and climatology.
  • Historical   studies — biography, history of ideas, social history, and histories of      institutions, organizations, and techniques.
  • Eloges  and book reviews.


Submit manuscripts by email to the Editor, John Diemer, jadiemer(a)uncc.edu 

Submit Book Reviews to Paul Lucier, paullucier2(a)gmail.com

 

Please follow the Author Guidelines closely and contact the editor with any questions. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, copyright will be transferred to the History of Earth Sciences Society. Therefore, Earth Sciences History cannot consider material that is under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.

 

Authors are respectfully requested to make a contribution toward page charges, but publication is not contingent upon contributions. Color figures/plates can be included in the online edition at no charge to the author, but if color is desired in the print version, page charges will apply; contact the Editor for current rates and payment information.

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