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The story of the Earth in 25 rocks : tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them /
Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth's past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters--each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon--Donald R. Prothero recounts...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.