The story of the Earth in 25 rocks
tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them
The story of the Earth in 25 rocks
tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The story of the Earth in 25 rocks : |b tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them / |c Donald R. Prothero. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Columbia University Press, |c [2018] | |
| 300 | |a viii, 354 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Volcanic tuff : Vulcan's wrath : the eruption of Vesuvius -- Native copper : the iceman and the island of copper -- Cassiterite : the "isles of tin" and the bronze age -- Angular unconformity : "no vestige of a beginning" : the immensity of geologic time -- Igneous dikes : the "Earth's great heat engine" : the origin of magmas -- Coal : the rock that burns fires the industrial revolution -- Jurassic park : the map that changed the world : William Smith and the rocks of Britain -- Radioactive uranium : the atomic clock : Arthur Holmes and the age of the Earth -- Chondritic meteorites : messengers from space : the origin of the solar system -- Iron-nickel meteorites : the cores of other planets -- Moon rocks : green cheese or anorthosite : the origin of the moon -- The first sediments : early oceans and life? evidence in a grain of sand -- Stromatolites : microbial condos : cyanobacteria and the oldest life -- Banded iron formation : mountains of iron : the Earth's early atmosphere -- Turbidites : archean sediments and submarine landslides -- Diamictites : tropical glaciers and the snowball Earth -- Exotic terranes : paradox in rocks : wandering fossils and traveling landmasses -- Jigsaw-puzzle bedrock : Alfred Wegener and continental drift -- Chalk : the cretaceous seaway and greenhouse planet -- The iridium layer : the death of the dinosaurs -- Lodestones : how paleomagic launched plate tectonics -- Blueschists : the puzzle of subduction zones -- Transform faults : earthquake! the San Andreas Fault -- Messinian evaporites : the mediterranean was a desert -- Glacial erraticts : a poet, a politician, a professor, and a janitor, and the discovery of the ice ages. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Geology |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Geologists. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Earth sciences |v Popular works. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Earth (Planet) |v Popular works. | |
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