Fanfare for Earth: The Origin of Our Planet and Life
Harry Y. McSween
ISBN 10: 0312146019 ISBN 13: 9780312146016
Published by St Martins Pr, 1997
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Introduces the origin of the Earth, discussing the chemical elements that lead to the formation of planets, the unique interior and exterior structure of the Earth, and the origins of life
Reviews: McSween, head of the geological sciences department at the University of Tennessee, and a graceful writer, as his Stardust to Planets (1993) demonstrated, surveys tales of Earth's origins from ancient to modern times, discusses nebular accretion, differentiation of Earth's interior, external objects' impact, and the evolution of continents, oceans, and the atmosphere, and examines the roots of life and the history of evolutionary theories. A profound sense of wonder is an appropriate response, he insists, to learning more about "a seemingly ordinary, but actually quite unusual place--the third planet outward from the Sun, a once-pummeled and still-smoldering ball of stone and metal, a sphere whose distilled rocky crust wanders restlessly over its surface, a shimmering blue world awash in water and teeming with carbon-based life." Should appeal to readers drawn to accessible science. Mary Carroll
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Title: Fanfare for Earth: The Origin of Our Planet ...
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
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