Rosen Educational Service, 2011. — 87 p. It may be hard to believe that the Earth, with all the complexity and biodiversity we observe today, originated in a cloud of gas and dust. Yet much of the plant and animal life that seems so common now evolved relatively recently on the timeline of Earth's long history. The Earth's remarkable origins are chronicled in this insightful...
Dunedin Academic Press Ltd, 2021. — 241 p. — ISBN: 9781780460994. River Planet introduces readers to the epic geological history of the world’s rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis. The river journey begins with the first evidence of flowing water four billion years ago and continues with enormous rivers on the first...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. — 259 p. ISBN: 0226322920. Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years ago to the origin of the universe nearly...
Delachaux et Niestlé, 2008. - 221 p. Parmi les milliards d'astres de l'univers, la Terre est le seul connu réunissant toutes les conditions nécessaires à la vie. De nombreuses autres particularités, moins évidentes, rendent la Terre singulière. Objet géologique et lieu de vie, notre planète est à la fois complexe et passionnante. 'Comment a-t-on calculé l'âge de la Terre? D'où...
Custom House, 2021. — 288 p. Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath the ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the...
2nd ed. — Cambrige University Press, 2013. — 342 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-85001-8; ISBN: 978-0-521-61519-8. Fully updated throughout, including revised illustrations and new images from NASA missions, this new edition provides an overview of Earth's history from a planetary science perspective for Earth science undergraduates. Earth's evolution is described in the context of what...
New York: Discovery Books, 1999. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1-56331-829-6. From its beginnings as an accumulation of molten space debris over 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth has undergone astounding transformations, both geological and biological, to arrive at its familiar look today. The Discovery Channel's Atlas of the Prehistoric World is a dynamic portrait of the Earth and the...
Oxford University Press,2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 019921428X Six million years ago, a vast ocean--which scientists have named Tethys--vanished from the face of the earth. How could such a huge body of water simply disappear? More interesting, how is it possible for scientists to know with certainty that Tethys existed for a quarter of a billion years, a period that includes the...
Oxford University Press,2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 019921428X Six million years ago, a vast ocean--which scientists have named Tethys--vanished from the face of the earth. How could such a huge body of water simply disappear? More interesting, how is it possible for scientists to know with certainty that Tethys existed for a quarter of a billion years, a period that includes the...
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