Book
Earth in 100 groundbreaking discoveries
Record details
- ISBN: 9781554078073 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 1554078075 (pbk.) :
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Physical Description:
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415 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Birth of a planet -- Earth's oldest materials -- Geological dating -- The oldest rocks -- The early atmosphere -- The evolving hydrosphere -- Layered earth -- Probing earth's interior -- Tectonic earth -- The molten core -- "D double-prime" -- Exploring the mantle -- The base of the crust -- Oceanic crust -- Long-lived continents -- Earth's continental rocks -- Continental rifting -- Making mountains -- Tectonic uplift -- Glacial puzzles -- Earthquakes and plate tectonics -- What makes faults slip? -- A case study in volcanism -- Island arc volcanoes -- Hot spot volcanoes -- Earth's greatest eruptions -- First fossils? -- LUCA -- Controversial origins -- Rising oxygen levels -- From simple to complex life -- Rodinia -- Snowball earth -- The phosphorus effect -- Gondwana and Pangea -- Mysterious Ediacarans -- The first animals -- Secrets of the sponge genome -- The Doushantuo embryos -- Life in the Cambrian seas -- Soft bodies from the Ordovician -- Avalonia -- |
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| Subject: | Earth -- Popular works |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Camosun College Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interurban Library | QE 501 P265 2011 (Text) | 26040002970552 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| Lansdowne Library | QE 501 P265 2011 (Text) | 26040002970180 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
