Earth's Deep History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth's Deep History write by Martin J. S. Rudwick. This book was released on 2016-11-03. Earth's Deep History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mammoths and dinosaurs, tropical forests in northern Europe and North America, worldwide ice ages, continents colliding and splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically onto the Earth - these are just some of the surprising features of the eventful history of our planet, stretched out over several billion years. But how was it all discovered, how was the evidence for the Earth’s long history collected and interpreted, and what sorts of people put together this reconstruction of a deep past that no human beings could ever have witnessed? In Earth’s Deep History, Martin J. S. Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the Earth’s history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways. Rudwick, the world’s premier historian of the Earth sciences, is the first to make the story of the discovery of the Earth’s deep history attractively accessible to readers without prior knowledge of either the history or the science, and in so doing he reveals why it matters to us today.
The Planet in a Pebble
The Planet in a Pebble - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Planet in a Pebble write by Jan Zalasiewicz. This book was released on 2012-03-22. The Planet in a Pebble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Every pebble has many stories to tell. Its particular atoms, its crystals, its minerals, its grains, its textures, its strata, its tiny fossils bear evidence to a history that stretches back billions of years."--Book flap.
Earth History and Palaeogeography
Earth History and Palaeogeography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth History and Palaeogeography write by Trond H. Torsvik. This book was released on 2017. Earth History and Palaeogeography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.
Origins
Origins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins write by Lewis Dartnell. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Origins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.
Scenes from Deep Time
Scenes from Deep Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scenes from Deep Time write by Martin J. S. Rudwick. This book was released on 1995-11-08. Scenes from Deep Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.
