Bibliograph

Earth's deep history, how it was discovered and why it matters, Martin J. S. Rudwick

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Earth's deep history, how it was discovered and why it matters, Martin J. S. Rudwick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Earth's deep history

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

881386603

Responsibility statement

Martin J. S. Rudwick

Sub title

how it was discovered and why it matters

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Making history a science -- Nature's own antiquities -- Sketching big pictures -- Expanding time and history -- Bursting the limits of time -- Worlds before Adam -- Disturbing a consensus -- Human history in nature's history -- Eventful deep history -- Global histories of the earth -- One planet among many

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