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John Solum · 03-01-2002, 04:50 AM

I thouht some folks here might be interested in this new GSA publication:

Is the Present the Key to the Past or the Past the Key to the Present? James Hutton and Adam Smith Versus Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx in Interpreting History

By A.M.C. Seng�r

<a href="http://rock.geosociety.org/bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&pID=spe355" target="_blank">http://rock.geosociety.org/bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&pID=spe355</a>

Here's their sales pitch:

Quote:

Is history the key to the present? Or is the present the key to understanding history? These questions have troubled the ablest minds in both the natural and social sciences. This book analyzes the answers given to these questions by four well-known researchers, two natural scientists and two social scientists. All four have had great impact in their chosen fields to this day. The answers they gave continue to influence the way we live our lives. The main lessons we learn from the opposing ideas of Werner and Marx on one side and Hutton and Smith on the other are: 1.) How empiricism leads to intolerant dogmatism and undermines science, and 2.) How bold conjecturing and its merciless refutation by observation serve to advance human knowledge. The neptunist-volcanist, catastrophist-uniformitarian, episodicist-continuist controversies are all parts of one great debate: Can history be our guide in understanding the processes that have governed natural and human evolution?

ps418 · 03-01-2002, 12:44 PM

Hey John,

I just read in the new GSA Today that GSA, SEPM, AAPG and several other journals are considering putting all of their journals together, online, with cross-references and back issues.
<a href="http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-document&issn=1052-5173&volume=012&issue=03&page=0011" target="_blank">A Collective Vision for the Future: GeoJournals, an Online Aggregate of Fully Interlinked Geoscience Society Journals</a>

John Solum · 03-01-2002, 03:01 PM

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Originally posted by ps418:
<strong>Hey John,

I just read in the new GSA Today that GSA, SEPM, AAPG and several other journals are considering putting all of their journals together, online, with cross-references and back issues.
<a href="http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-document&issn=1052-5173&volume=012&issue=03&page=0011" target="_blank">A Collective Vision for the Future: GeoJournals, an Online Aggregate of Fully Interlinked Geoscience Society Journals</a></strong>

Hi Patrick,

I'd heard that they planned on doing that, and I really hope they do. I'm pretty happpy with the GSA and the AAPG already, and I think this can only improve their service. GSA includes electronic access to the GSA Bulletin and Geology free to their student members (they just started doing that this year). The AAPG student subscription rate is also very cheap (but it doesn't come with online access). I wish the AGU would join them, having electronic access to their journals would be very handy. Articles published before 2001 in the American Mineralogist (the publication of the Mineralogical Society of America) is currently available free online to everyone.

<a href="http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/TOCpage.html" target="_blank">http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/TOCpage.html</a>

I haven't received the volume of GSA Today that includes this article yet. The cover story is "Structure and Evolution of the Lithosphere Beneath the Rocky Mountains", which I think sounds like a great article. I haven't received this month's Geology yet either (they've been slow about sending mine to me lately - I received February's volume in mid-February, and January's a week later). The cover this month looks pretty cool.

John

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ps418 Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Louisville, KY, USA Posts: 1,840	Hey John, I just read in the new GSA Today that GSA, SEPM, AAPG and several other journals are considering putting all of their journals together, online, with cross-references and back issues. <a href="http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-document&issn=1052-5173&volume=012&issue=03&page=0011" target="_blank">A Collective Vision for the Future: GeoJournals, an Online Aggregate of Fully Interlinked Geoscience Society Journals</a>

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