Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- 34 United States
- 35 Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- 36 Canada
- 37 United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania: A Commentary
- Latin America
- Index
36 - Canada
from United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- 34 United States
- 35 Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- 36 Canada
- 37 United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania: A Commentary
- Latin America
- Index
Summary
The coincidence in 2017 of the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation with the 175th year of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), one of the country’s oldest, most venerable scientific institutions, highlighted historical entanglements that run deep, in both directions. A tumultuous generation after The New Yorker published Nathan Fast’s telling assessment of more than just “The Status of Canadian Geology” in 1957, a team of Quebec geoscientists in 1995 reported in Nature that Canada owes its tectonic origins to a clash between two incompatible micro-continents.
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- The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 736 - 751Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020