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
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.
