Moore, Ruth <br/><br/>
The Earth we live on :  the story of geological discovery / 
by Ruth Moore; drawings by Sue Allen. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf,  1956. 
 - xiv, 416, i-x :  ill., ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> With hardcover 
<br/><br/>Cont.: Part I -- Myth and Reason -- Gods, Reason, and the Earth -- Of the Flood and the Earth / Noah -- Part II -- An Unsuspected Past -- A Past of Fire / Guettard -- Fire versus Water / Desmarest and Werner -- No sight of Beginning or End / Hutton -- Monsters and Revolutions / Cuvier -- Ice! / Agassiz -- The Changed and Changing Earth / Lyell -- Part III -- Hidden Change -- An Ancient Core / Logan -- Mountains Down / Hall -- Grand Canyon / Powell -- Mountains Up / Dutton -- Ice, Sun, and Beginnings / Chamberlin -- Part IV -- Into Invisible Forces -- The Origin of the Earth / Urey -- The Interior of the Earth / Jeffreys, Bullard, and Runcorn -- The Growing Continents / Wilson -- Great and Fiery Outpourings / Waters -- Assortment of Riches / Goldschmidt and Mason -- The Age of the Earth / Kulp. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geology--History