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The story of Earth : the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet
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The story of Earth : the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet / Robert M. Hazen.
ISBN
9780670023554
0670023558
Published
New York : Viking, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere--of rocks and living matter--has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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Internet Archive collection.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Contents
Birth : the formation of Earth
The Big Thwack : the formation of the moon
Black Earth : the first basalt crust
Blue Earth : the formation of the oceans
Gray Earth : the first granite crust
Living Earth : the origins of life
Red Earth : photosynthesis and the Great Oxidation Event
The "boring" billion : the mineral revolution
White Earth : the snowball-hothouse cycle
Green Earth : the rise of the terrestrial biosphere
The future : scenarios of a changing planet.
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