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A little history of the Earth / Jamie Woodward.
Van Pelt - New Book Display QE28.3 .W66 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodward, Jamie C., author.
- Series:
- Little histories (Yale University Press)
- A little history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical geology.
- Earth (Planet)--History.
- Earth (Planet).
- Earth sciences--History.
- Earth sciences.
- Paleontology.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Fossils.
- Scientists--History.
- Scientists.
- paleontology.
- fossils.
- Genre:
- Introductory works.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- This book presents an overview of Earth's history and the scientific understanding of its development. It examines the formation of the Solar System, the evolution of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, the emergence of life, and the progression from early organisms to dinosaurs, mammals, and humans. The narrative spans geological deep time through to the Anthropocene. The book also explores how scientists have studied rocks, fossils, and landscapes to reconstruct Earth's past, highlighting significant discoveries and the contributions of key figures in the earth sciences. Written as an accessible introduction, it provides a broad survey of geological and environmental history for a general audience.
- Contents:
- A view into deep time
- How to build a planet
- The Goldilocks zone
- The Moon
- How old is the Earth?
- Building blocks: Rocks and minerals
- The oldest rocks on Earth
- Journey to the centre of the Earth
- Plate tectonics and shifting continents
- The air we breathe
- The first life on Earth
- Earth's magnetic shield
- Snowball Earth
- Where did all the water come from?
- The first animals
- From life in the ocean to life on land
- The global greenhouse and ancient climates
- Fishes, four limbs and forests
- Volcanoes past and present
- The last supercontinent and the great dying
- The age of the dinosaurs
- Mary Anning's Jurassic world
- The end of the dinosaurs
- The idea of extinction
- Alligators in the Arctic
- The last great cooling
- Crisis in the Mediterranean
- Joining the Americas
- Ocean currents and Earth's biggest beasts
- Out of Africa: The human story
- The quarternary ice age
- Seasons and celestial cycles
- Earth history in ice cores
- A green Sahara
- Taming the Earth
- The little ice age
- Warming the Earth
- Planetary boundaries
- The sixth extinction
- The anthropocene: A human planet
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300246148
- 0300246145
- OCLC:
- 1499649893
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