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Earth in 100 groundbreaking discoveries
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A journey back through the evolutionary history of our planet, from the origins and formation of the earth.--
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- Creator
- Douglas Palmer
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- History of Earth in 100 groundbreaking discoveries
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- English
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- Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2011
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- 415 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1554078075, 9781554078073
- OCLC
- ocn696908622, ocn757134563
- Includes index.
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Birth of a planet -- 2.Earth's oldest materials -- 3.Geological dating -- 4.The oldest rocks -- 5.The early atmosphere -- 6.The evolving hydrosphere -- 7.Layered Earth -- 8.Probing Earth's interior -- 9.Tectonic Earth -- 10.The molten core -- 11.'D double-prime' -- 12.Exploring the mantle -- 13.The base of the crust -- 14.Oceanic crust -- 15.Long-lived continents -- 16.Earth's continental rocks -- 17.Continental rifting -- 18.Making mountains -- 19.Tectonic uplift -- 20.Glacial puzzles -- 21.Earthquakes and plate tectonics -- 22.What makes faults slip? -- 23.A case study in volcanism -- 24.Island arc volcanoes -- 25.Hot spot volcanoes -- 26.Earth's greatest eruptions -- 27.First fossils? -- 28.LUCA -- 29.Controversial origins -- 30.Rising oxygen levels -- 31.From simple to complex life -- 32.Rodinia -- 33.Snowball Earth -- 34.The phosphorus effect -- 35.Gondwana and Pangea -- 36.Mysterious Ediacarans -- 37.The first animals -- 38.Secrets of the sponge genome -- 39.The Doushantuo embryos -- 40.Life in the Cambrian seas -- 41.Soft bodies from the Ordovician -- 42.Avalonia -- 43.Ordovician boom and bust -- 44.Living on the land -- 45.Oxygen booms and growth spurts -- 46.Four feet on the ground -- 47.The fossils of East Kirkton -- 48.Joggins Fossil Cliffs -- 49.Coal forests and glaciations -- 50.Early Permian life -- 51.The Great Dying -- 52.Triassic survivors -- 53.Rise of the dinosaurs -- 54.Late Triassic life -- 55.Life in Triassic seas -- 56.Mongolian mammals -- 57.Africa's giant dinosaurs -- 58.Australia's polar dinosaurs -- 59.India's journey north -- 60.Evolution of flowering plants -- 61.Sauropod puzzles -- 62.Linking birds and dinosaurs -- 63.Dinosaur eggs and babies -- 64.The end of the Mesozoic -- 65.The Cenozoic recovery -- 66.Primate beginnings -- 67.PETM - The Great Warming -- 68.The Great Rift Valley -- 69.Changing climates of the past -- 70.The australopithecine clan -- 71.The real `Great Flood' -- 72.The Quaternary Ice Age -- 73.Genus Homo -- 74.The first art -- 75.Neanderthal mysteries -- 76.Unexpected cousins -- 77.The Younger Dryas -- 78.Megafloods -- 79.The Holocene rebound -- 80.Domestication of plants and animals -- 81.Disappearing megafauna -- 82.Biodiversity -- 83.Extremophiles -- 84.The Census of Marine Life -- 85.Human overkill -- 86.The carbon dioxide record -- 87.Climate change and mountain erosion -- 88.Changing sea levels -- 89.Habitats on the move -- 90.Danger from the soil? -- 91.Freshwater challenges -- 92.Does coal have a future? -- 93.Atmospheric pollution -- 94.Ocean hypoxia -- 95.Energy futures -- 96.The Athabasca tar sands -- 97.Threat from the skies -- 98.Future sea levels -- 99.Future tectonics -- 100.The fate of the Earth