JSE 35:3 Fall 2021

The Bridger Formation is restricted to the Green River Basin in southwest Wyoming, and the Uinta and Duchesne River Formations are located in the Uinta Basin in Utah. These three rock units and their diverse fossil assemblages are of great scientific importance and historic interest to vertebrate paleontologists. Notably, they are also the stratotypes from oldest to youngest for the three middle Eocene North American Land Mammal Ages—the Bridgerian, Uintan, and Duchesnean. The fossils and sediments of these formations provide a critically important record of biotic, environmental, and climatic history spanning approximately 10 million years (49 to 39 Ma). This article provides a detailed field excursion through portions of the Green River and Uinta Basins that focuses on locations of geologic, paleontologic, and historical interest. In support of the field excursion, we also provide a review of current knowledge of these formations with emphasis on lithostratigraphy, biochronology, depositional, and paleoenvironmental history, and the history of scientific exploration.

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El Papel de Humbodt en el Origen y Desarrollo de la Geografia Moderna

GEOgraphia ◽

10.22409/geographia2002.48.a13430 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 4 (8) ◽

pp. 7

Author(s):

Héctor F. Rucinque e Wellington Jiménez

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Founding Father ◽

Analytical Methodology ◽

Alexander Von Humboldt ◽

Scientific Exploration ◽

History Of Geography ◽

Tropical America ◽

History Of ◽

Scholarly Production ◽

Modern Geography

RESUMO Por lo general, los historiadores de la ciencia reconocen la importaocia de Alexander von Humboldt en el desarrollo de la geografía moderna, si bien tal contribución especializada no es claramente desglosada de su multifacética producción científica. Con ocasión del bicentenario de su viaje a la América tropical, el papel de Humboldt en la formulación de las bases de una metodología analítica para la investigación geográfica, y su monumental trabajo sustantivo, lo mismo que su penetrante permanencia e inspiración en la tradición geográfica, deben acreditarse como justificación amplia y suficiente para su título de padre fundador de la geografía científica. Epígrafes: Humboldt, historia de la geografía, geografía moderna, metodología geográfica, exploración científica.ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt’s contributions to the development of modern geography are generally ackoowledged by historians of science, though not always stated precisely out of his many-sided scholarly production. On the occasion of the Bicentennial of his voyage to tropical America, Humboldt’s role in setting forth the foundation of an analytical methodology for geography as well as for his monumental substantive work, along with his pervasive and inspiring perrnanence in the geographical tradition, must be recognized as ample justification tu his title as founding father of scientific geography. Key words: Humboldt, history of geography, modern geography, geagraphical methodology, scientific exploration.

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Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration. By Paul Copan & William Lane Craig

The Heythrop Journal ◽

10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00646_11.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 311-312

Author(s):

Terry J. Wright

Keyword(s):

William Lane Craig ◽

Scientific Exploration

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The oceanographic contribution of James Croll

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s1755691021000086 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Alastair DAWSON

Keyword(s):

Ocean Circulation ◽

High Latitude ◽

First Principles ◽

Heat Supply ◽

Real Data ◽

Ocean Currents ◽

Ice Ages ◽

Scientific Exploration ◽

The Many

ABSTRACT The research of James Croll on the nature of Ice Ages led him into a detailed investigation of ocean currents. By the early 1870s he had calculated from first principles the quantities of heat delivered by ocean currents to high latitude areas and he understood how this heat supply may have altered drastically during ice ages. The publication of his many papers on ocean currents as well as his book, Climate and Time, coincided with Challenger expedition that, in 1872, embarked on a 4-year voyage of scientific exploration of the world's oceans. The expedition was crucially important for Croll since it enabled him to test his theories of ocean circulation using real data. His novel theories of ocean circulation based on this information conflicted with the established views popularly advocated by William Carpenter but they ultimately prevailed. In the many writings of Croll on ocean currents, we encounter, as with other areas of his research, numerous remarkable ideas many decades ahead their time.

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Wine - A Scientific Exploration

Nutrition Bulletin ◽

10.1046/j.1467-3010.2003.00340.x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 407-407

Author(s):

Mike Saltmarsh

Keyword(s):

Scientific Exploration

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Emergence Of Consciousness And Qualia From A Complex Brain

Folia Medica ◽

10.1515/folmed-2015-0010 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 56 (4) ◽

pp. 289-296

Author(s):

Jakob Korf

Keyword(s):

System Theory ◽

General System ◽

Resolution Power ◽

Brain Functions ◽

Scientific Exploration ◽

Brain Changes ◽

Higher Brain Functions ◽

The Brain

Abstract Qualia are private conscious experiences of which the associated feelings can be reported to other people. Whether qualia are amenable to scientific exploration has often been questioned, which is challenged by the present article. The following arguments are given: 1. the configuration of the brain changes continuously and irreversibly, because of genetic and environmental influences and interhuman communication; 2. qualia and consciousness are processes, rather than states; 3. private feelings, including those associated with qualia, should be positioned in the context of a personal brain as being developed during life; 4. consciousness and qualia should be understood in the context of general system theory, thus concluding that isolated, in vitro, properties of neurons and other brain constituents might marginally contribute to the understanding of higher brain functions, mind or qualia; 5. current in vivo approaches have too little resolution power - in terms of space and time - to delineate individual and subjective brain processes. When subtle personalized properties of the nervous system can be assessed in vivo or in vitro, qualia can scientifically be investigated. We discuss some approaches to overcome these barriers.

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