The Gulf of Mexico is a small ocean basin lying between the North American plate and the Yucatan block. It contains within its depocenter a succession of Jurassic through Holocene strata that is as much as 20 km thick.
Abstract. Edward B. Tylorâs Primitive Culture articulates one of two major theories of culture to emerge around 1870. His theory defines culture in descriptive terms as the âcomplex wholeâ that makes up social ideas and institutions, and in this it helped to establish anthropology as a recognized science.
The HAB Theory is a 1976 novel based on a theory presented by an engineer named Hugh Auchincloss Brown in his 1967 book Cataclysms of the Earth. Although Brown's theory was ignored by the scientific community, Eckert believed the theory was valid and wrote The HAB Theory to warn humanity of the impending catastrophe.