Essentials of Earth History
Author : William Lee Stokes
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : William Lee Stokes
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : William Lee Stokes
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Historical geology
ISBN :
Author : William Lee Stokes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Gary Prost
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351648969
This practical guidebook provides a basic grounding in the principles of geology and explains how to apply them. Using this book, readers will be able to figure out whether they are standing on an ancient seafloor, coal swamp, or sand dune. They will be able to determine the geologic hazards in their neighborhood, where to look for fossils and minerals, or where best to drill a water well. In plain English, The Geology Companion sheds light on the processes that shape the earth and how geology affects people in their daily lives.
Author : Trond H. Torsvik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107105323
This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.
Author : William Lee Stokes
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN :
Author : Kent C. Condie
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN :
Examples are the nature of Earth's oldest rocks, the origin of continents, extraterrestrial impact and mass extinctions of organisms, rates of organic evolution, and recent developments on the origin of humans.
Author : Andrew H. Knoll
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0062853937
Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP) “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).
Author : Donald E. Canfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691168369
The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planet The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans—covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. Canfield guides readers through the various lines of scientific evidence, considers some of the wrong turns and dead ends along the way, and highlights the scientists and researchers who have made key discoveries in the field. Showing how Earth’s atmosphere developed over time, Oxygen takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of the oxygenation of our planet.
Author : Lisa Tauxe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520260317
"This book by Lisa Tauxe and others is a marvelous tool for education and research in Paleomagnetism. Many students in the U.S. and around the world will welcome this publication, which was previously only available via the Internet. Professor Tauxe has performed a service for teaching and research that is utterly unique."—Neil D. Opdyke, University of Florida