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The Planet in a Pebble: A journey into Earth´s deep history
Jan Zalasiewicz
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Description for The Planet in a Pebble: A journey into Earth´s deep history
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 black and white illustrations, 4pp colour plate section. BIC Classification: PDZ; WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
248g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199645695
SKU
V9780199645695
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About Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz is Professor of Paleobiology at the University of Leicester, before that working at the British Geological Survey. A field geologist, palaeontologist and stratigrapher, he teaches various aspects of geology and Earth history to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and is a researcher into fossil ecosystems and environments across over half a billion years of geological time. He has published ... Read more
Reviews for The Planet in a Pebble: A journey into Earth´s deep history
A mind-expanding, awe inducing but friendly scientific exploration of the history
Holly Kyte, The Sunday Telegraph
Holly Kyte, The Sunday Telegraph