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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tjeerd H Van Andel |
| ISBN: | 0521442435 9780521442435 0521447550 9780521447553 |
| OCLC Number: | 29910095 |
| Description: | xv, 439 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | At the start -- Foundations -- Rocks, events, and time. 1. Reading the record of the rocks. 2. Perspective on time -- Climate past and present: the Ice Age -- The snows of yesteryear. 3. Climate and climate change. 4. Portrait of an ice age. 5. Explaining glaciations -- Drifting continents, rising mountains -- A geological revolution. 6. Continental drift and plate tectonics. 7. Continental breakup and continental drift. 8. Converging plates and colliding continents -- Changing oceans, changing climates -- Continental drift and ancient environments. 9. The sea comes in, the sea goes out. 10. Other times and other oceans. 11. Onward to the Ice Age. 12. A matter of rhythm -- The four-billion-year childhood -- The years when nearly everything began. 13. Birth of the solid earth. 14. Water for the sea, air for the atmosphere. 15. The dawn of life -- Life, time, and change -- The endless interaction. 16. Beyond Darwin. 17. Bones of our ancestors. 18. Evolution and environment. |
| Responsibility: | Tjeerd H. van Andel. |
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