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The story of Earth : the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet / Robert M. Hazen.
In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere--of rocks and living matter--has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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- ISBN: 9780143123644
- ISBN: 0143123645
- Physical Description: 306 pages : 1 illustration ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2012.
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Birth : the formation of Earth -- The big thwack : the formation of the Moon -- Black Earth : the first basalt crust -- Blue Earth : the formation of the oceans -- Gray Earth : the first granite crust -- Living Earth : the origins of life -- Red Earth : photosynthesis and the great oxidation event -- The "boring" billion : the mineral revolution -- White Earth : the snowball-hothouse cycle -- Green Earth : the rise of the terrestrial biosphere -- The future : scenarios of a changing planet. |
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| Subject: | Earth (Planet) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | QE 501 .H394 2013 | 30775305482847 | General Collection | Available | - |
The Story of Earth : The First 4. 5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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The Story of Earth : The First 4. 5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
Hailed by The New York Times for writing "with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along," nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet's living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist's imagination, a historian's perspective, and a naturalist's eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth's many iterations in vivid detail--from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." - Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben
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