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The Earth Machine : : the Science of a Dynamic Planet

Mathez, Edmond A. Book - 2004 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Part I: How has Earth evolved? -- The birth of planet Earth -- Learning the age of Earth -- The evolution of continents -- Life and conditions on early Earth -- Reading rocks: the story of the Grand Canyon -- Part II: Why are there ocean basins, continents, and mountains? -- Internal Earth -- Plate tectonics -- Lavas from the depths of Earth -- Great explosive volcanoes -- Earthquakes -- Mountains -- The Alps -- Part III: What causes Earth's climate and climate change? -- The atmosphere -- The world ocean -- The geological record of climate change -- Part IV: Why is Earth habitable? -- Conditions for life -- Black smokers from the deep -- Some natural resources and how they form.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: xiv, 335 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
023112578X :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Webster, James D.

SUBJECTS
Earth.