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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcia Bjornerud |
OCLC Number: | 62154449 |
Notes: | Originally published: Cambridge, MA : Westview Press, ©2005. |
Description: | 1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Prologue, stone crazy -- The tao of earth -- Reading rocks, a primer -- The great and the small -- Mixing and sorting -- Innovation and conservation -- Strength and weakness -- Epilogue, the once and future earth -- Glossary. |
Responsibility: | Marcia Bjornerud. |
Abstract:
To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. [The author] takes the reader along on [a] tour of Deep Time, explaining in elegant prose what we see and feel beneath our feet. Both scientist and storyteller, [the author] uses anecdotes and metaphors to remind us that our home is a living thing with lessons to teach. She shows how our planet has long maintained a delicate balance, and how the global give-and-take has sustained life on Earth through numerous upheavals. But with the rapidly escalating effects of human beings on their home planet, that cosmic balance is being threatened - and the consequences may be catastrophic. [This book] is literally a history of the world ...-http://www.westviewpress.com.
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