Earth time: exploring the deep past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Published by John Wiley, 2005
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Earth time: exploring the deep past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon
- Author
- Palmer, D.
- Publisher
- John Wiley
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0470022213
- ISBN 13
- 9780470022214
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Geology
- A probing account of the history of the earth and an introduction to the many eccentric characters that have attempted to understand its origins.
- Full of fascinating anecdotes about 19th century explorers and natural philosophers who first carved up Earth's history just as others were carving up the globe.
- Unravels the fascinating history of rock strata and the implications they have had on accepted theories on the Earth's life.
- Considers the future of the earth, and what a repeat of some of the catastrophic events of the earth's past, such as major earthquakes and asteroid collisions, could mean for life today.
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