The Story of Earth : : the First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet
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Includes index.
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.
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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New York : Viking, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670023554
0670023558
9780143123644
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Earth.