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Building Planet Earth superbly illustrates and describes the geology of Earth; how it formed, became structured, and evolved into the planet as we know it, with its present distribution of continents, oceans, and dazzling diversity of life. This 4.6 billion-year history of the third rock from the sun is an extraordinary story, and understanding Earth's main geological processes has become increasingly important for ensuring our future on this crowded planet.
Building Planet Earth superbly illustrates and describes the geology of Earth; how it formed, became structured, and evolved into the planet as we know it, with its present distribution of continents, oceans, and dazzling diversity of life. This 4.6 billion-year history of the third rock from the sun is an extraordinary story, and understanding Earth's main geological processes has become increasingly important for ensuring our future on this crowded planet.
Designed for the general reader, Building Planet Earth explains these fundamental Earth processes: how the atmosphere interacts with the oceans to produce our changing climates; how the heat from the Earth's central core drives surface processes, such as plate tectonics with its related earthquakes, fault movements, and volcanism; how mountains are formed and sediments deposited to form layers of strata, including the economically important hydrocarbons that fueled the industrial revolution; and how life prospered and declined through evolution and extinction, sometimes being abruptly terminated by catastrophic events from outer space. The combination of good graphics, artwork, and photographic illustration makes this a visually attractive, accessible read, complete with short bibliography, glossary, and index. --Douglas Palmer, Amazon.co.uk
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In the pages which follow I will endeavour to tell the story of the Earth, from its birth some 4600 million years ago until the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cratonic rocks, ancient craton, mobile belt, palaeomagnetic data, early continents, sialic crust, glacial beds, mobile zones, rock succession, spreading axis, marginal basins, oceanic crust, structural grain, convergent plate margins, ancient crust, spreading centres, continental deposits, continental crust, orogenic belts, marine sedimentary rocks, modern continents, late palaeozoic, magmatic activity, geological cycles, greenstone belts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, South America, Solar System, Red Sea, San Andreas Fault, South Africa, Solar Nebula, Tethys Ocean, Papua New Guinea, Mount St Helens, Peninsular India, Indian Ocean, Lower Palaeozoic, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, East Pacific Rise, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Space Shuttle, Columbia River, South Pole, Mauna Loa, North Wales, Big Bang, Great Bombardment, Great Britain New!
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In the pages which follow I will endeavour to tell the story of the Earth, from its birth some 4600 million years ago until the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cratonic rocks, ancient craton, mobile belt, palaeomagnetic data, early continents, sialic crust, glacial beds, mobile zones, rock succession, spreading axis, marginal basins, oceanic crust, structural grain, convergent plate margins, ancient crust, spreading centres, continental deposits, continental crust, orogenic belts, marine sedimentary rocks, modern continents, late palaeozoic, magmatic activity, geological cycles, greenstone belts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, South America, Solar System, Red Sea, San Andreas Fault, South Africa, Solar Nebula, Tethys Ocean, Papua New Guinea, Mount St Helens, Peninsular India, Indian Ocean, Lower Palaeozoic, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, East Pacific Rise, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Space Shuttle, Columbia River, South Pole, Mauna Loa, North Wales, Big Bang, Great Bombardment, Great Britain New!
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- Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, the Year Without a Summer by Henry M. Stommel in Back Matter
- Understanding the Earth by Department of Geology in Back Matter
- Natural Disasters by D.E. Alexander in Back Matter
- Seven Clues to the Origin of Life by A.G. Cairns-Smith in Back Matter
- Evolution of the Earth by Donald Prothero in Back Matter
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- The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics by C. M. R. Fowler on page 4
- Atmospheric Pollution by Mark Z. Jacobson in Back Matter
- Two Hundred Years Astray by Neil B. Christianson on page 37
- Geology (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) by Frank H. T. Rhodes in Back Matter
- The Battle of Beginnings: Why Neither Side Is Winning the Creation-Evolution Debate by Delvin Lee Ratzsch in Back Matter
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