Young Earth : An Introduction to Archean Geology
E.G. Nisbet
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paperback. Num Pages: 419 pages, 134 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: RBGF; RBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 638.
'What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing, are difficult to interpret, dusty, and do not fit well in the neatly ordered contents of a house of learning. Archaean geology, which is the study of the Earth's history in the period from after 9 the end of planetary accretion (4.5-4.4 x 10 years ago) up to the beginning 9 of the Proterozoic (2.5 ... Read more
'What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing, are difficult to interpret, dusty, and do not fit well in the neatly ordered contents of a house of learning. Archaean geology, which is the study of the Earth's history in the period from after 9 the end of planetary accretion (4.5-4.4 x 10 years ago) up to the beginning 9 of the Proterozoic (2.5 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
419
Condition
New
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780045500499
SKU
V9780045500499
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