Myth and geology /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Geological Society,
2007
London : 2007 |
| Series: | Geological Society special publication ;
273 Geological Society special publication ; no. 273 Geological Society special publication ; no. 273 Geological Society special publication no. 273 |
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Table of Contents:
- Geomythology : geological origins of myths and legends / D.B. Vitaliano
- Exploring the nature of myth and its role in science / W.B. Masse ... [et al.]
- Geo-mythology of India / D. Chandrasekharam
- Genesis chapter 1 and geological time from Hugo Grotius and Marin Mersenne to William Conybeare and Thomas Chalmers (1620-1825) / M.B. Roberts
- Environment and natural hazards in Roman and medieval texts : presentation of the CLEMENS database project / E. Vittori, S. Fulloni & L. Piccardi
- From myth to earth education and science communication / T. Lanza & A. Negrete
- Folklore and earthquakes : Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan / R.S. Ludwin & G.J. Smits
- The AD 60 Denizli Basin earthquake and the apparition of Archangel Michael at Colossae (Aegean Turkey) / L. Piccardi
- Writing on the walls : geological context and early American spiritual beliefs / S.E. Hough
- The Fenris Wolf in the Nordic Asa creed in the light of palaeoseismics / N.-A. Mörner
- Band-e-Amir Lakes and Dragon Valley (Bamiyan) : myths and seismicity in Afghanistan / F.G. Bourrouilh-Le Jan, B. Akram & M. Schvoerer
- The Bible and geology : destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah / V.G. Trifonov
- Geological histories and geohazard potential of Pacific islands illuminated by myths / P.D. Nunn & R. Pastorizo
- Exploding lakes in myth and reality : an African case study / E. Shanklin
- Myth and catastrophic reality : using myth to identify cosmic impacts and massive Plinian eruptions in Holocene South America / W.B. Masse & M.J. Masse
- Cosmogenic mega-tsunami in the Australia region : are they supported by Aboriginal and Maori legends? / E. Bryant, G. Walsh & D. Abbott
- Meteorite records in the ancient Greek and Latin literature : between history and myth / M. D'Orazio
- Sooty sweat stains or tourmaline spots? The Argonauts on the island of Elba (Tuscany) and the spread of Greek trading in the Mediterranean Sea / A. Dini ... [et al.]
- Place names describing fossils in oral traditions / A. Mayor
- Giants and elephants of Sicily / V. Agnesi, C. Di Patti & B. Truden
- On the discovery of the ice age : science and myth / W.H. Berger
- Shepherds' crowns, fairy loaves and thunderstones : the mythology of fossil echinoids in England / K.J. McNamara
- Obsidian : sacred glass from the California sky / S. Fox Hodgson
- Erratic blocks : from protector beings to geosites to be protected / L. Motta & M. Motta
- The contribution of the 'Sibilla Appenninica' legend to karst knowledge in the Sibillini Mountains (central Apennines, Italy) / D. Aringoli ... [et al.]