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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2012
- ISBN 9780199645695
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 195x129x19 mm
- Weight 281 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black and white illustrations, 4pp colour plate section 30
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Short description:
In this narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, Jan Zalasiewicz shows how many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a single pebble. He explores how geologists reach deep into the past by forensic analysis of even the tiniest amounts of mineral matter, demonstrating and revealing Earth's extraordinary story.
MoreLong description:
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 small and apparently mundane object. Many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a pebble: volcanic eruptions; the lives and deaths of extinct animals and plants; the alien nature of long-vanished oceans; and transformations deep underground, including the creations of fool's gold and of oil.
Zalasiewicz demonstrates how geologists reach deep into the Earth's past by forensic analysis of even the tiniest amounts of mineral matter. Many stories are crammed into each and every pebble around us. It may be small, and ordinary, this pebble - but it is also an eloquent part of our Earth's extraordinary, never-ending story.
A mind-expanding, awe inducing but friendly scientific exploration of the history
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Stardust
From the Depths of the Earth
Distant Lands
To the Rendezvous
The Sea
Ghosts Observed
Ghosts in Absentia
Where on Earth?
Gold!
The Oil Window
Making Mountains
Breaking the Surface
Futures
