The little book of planet Earth /
The Little Book of Planet Earth presents a concise description of the geological evolution of Earth from its formation. Meissner describes in detailed but accessible prose not just the planet's features, but the tools that modern geologists use to explore and track the ever-changing subterranea...
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New York :
Copernicus,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. The roots of earth sciences
- ch. 2. The Earth in the context of our solar system
- ch. 3. The formation of Earth and moon
- ch. 4. The interior of the Earth and the role of seismology
- ch. 5. Rotation and shape, gravity and tides
- ch. 6. The Earth's magnetic field
- ch. 7. Atom, mineral, rock
- ch. 8. The early ages
- ch. 9. Radioactive dating
- ch. 10. Plate tectonics
- ch. 11. The crust of the Earth
- ch. 12. Formation of mountains and basins
- ch. 13. New discoveries, new concepts
- ch. 14. The phanerozoic : the last 600 million years
- ch. 15. Biological evolution
- Epilogue : our limited resources.