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The planet in a pebble : a journey into Earth's deep history / Jan Zalasiewicz.
LIBRA QE28.3 .Z35 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zalasiewicz, J. A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical geology.
- Earth (Planet)--History.
- Earth (Planet).
- History.
- Pebbles.
- Petrology.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Stardust
- From the depths of the earth
- Distant lands
- To the rendezvous
- The sea
- Ghosts observed
- Ghosts in absentia
- Where on earth?
- Gold!
- The oil window
- Making mountains
- Breaking the surface
- Futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199569700
- 0199569703
- OCLC:
- 624411936
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