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

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 g...

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1. Verfasser: Zalasiewicz, J. A.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
ISBN:9780191612831
0191612839
1283296861
9781283296861
9786613296863
6613296864

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