The planet in a pebble : a journey into Earth's deep history /
This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as g...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Stardust
- From the depths of the earth
- Distant lands
- To the rendezvous
- The sea
- Ghosts observed
- Ghosts in absentia
- Where on earth?
- Gold!
- The oil window
- Making mountains
- Breaking the surface
- Futures.