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The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a biography of Earth, charting...
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Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Historic stratigraphic illustrations depict the earth beneath our feet in captivating hand-drawn diagrams. Each drawing tells a unique geologic story, exquisitely rendered in colors from pastel palettes to brilliant bolds that show evolving scientific graphic conventions over time. Created by federal and state geologists over the course of one hundred years, the maps reveal sedimentary rock layers that present an unexpected view of our treasured public...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2020.
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English
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The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The Hiscock project, informally called the "Byron Dig," involved the 29-year scientific excavation and study of a site in western New York. The site proved to contain an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts dating from the late Ice Age to the time of European settlement. The tangible result of this project is a fully documented collection of over 100,000 specimens in the Buffalo Museum of Science. The proposed book is based on the published...
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Pegasus
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In exploring how Icelandersinteract with nature-and their idea that elves live among us-Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucialfirst step toward saving it. Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art-from ancient times to today-Brown...
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Cambridge University Press
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2008.
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English
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"This concise handbook presents a summary of Earth's history as well as a brief overview of contemporaneous events on the Moon, Mars, and Venus. ... The Concise Geologic Time Scale is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals. The presentation is non-technical and illustrated with numerous color charts, maps and photographs. The book also includes a laminated card of the complete...
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