The earth as a cradle for life /

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This book takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, through to human perturbations of the modern world and their implications for life in the future.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stacey, F. D. (Frank D.)
Other Authors: Hodgkinson, Jane H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2013]
Subjects:
Earth sciences > Textbooks.
Environmental sciences > Textbooks.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > Geophysics.
Earth sciences
Environmental sciences
Textbooks
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The age of the earth as an abode fitted for life" (Lord Kelvin, 1899)
  • Rotation, tides and the moon
  • The variable sun and other astronomical effects
  • The magnetic field
  • Internal heat and the evolution of the earth
  • The oceans
  • Planetary atmospheres and the appearance of free oxygen
  • Thermal balance, the greenhouse effect, and sea level
  • Environmental crises and mass extinctions of species
  • Stability of the environment
  • Inorganic mineral deposits as products of an evolving environment
  • Fossil fuels, buried carbon and photosynthetic oxygen
  • Effects of fossil fuel use
  • A comparison of human energy use with natural dissipations
  • The cradle is rocking
  • A summary of salient conclusions.

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