The planet in a pebble : a journey into Earth's deep history

Author/Creator:: Zalasiewicz, J. A.
Publication/Creation:: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
Format:: Book

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Full Title:: The planet in a pebble : a journey into Earth's deep history / Jan Zalasiewicz

Table of 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.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
Summary:: This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginable violence in distal realms of the Universe, in the Big Bang and in supernova explosions and continues amid the construction of the Solar System. Jan Zalasiewicz shows the almost incredible complexity present in such a sm.
Language:: English
Language Note:: English.
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Local Note:: Available to current Emory students, faculty and staff.

Catalog ID (MMSID):: 9937796838602486
ISBN:: 9780191612831
9781283296861
9786613296863
0191612839
1283296861
6613296864
Other Identifiers:: Unspecified: 9786613296863