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Author Tolstikhin, I. N. (Igorʹ Nesterovich)

Title The evolution of matter : from the big bang to the present day Earth / Igor Tolstikhin, Jan Kramers
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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 MELB  551.9 Tol/Eom  AVAILABLE
Description x, 521 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary "This book explains how matter in the universe developed from primordial production of light elements within minutes of the Big Bang, and from subsequent stellar processes that continue to create heavier elements at the expense of lighter ones. It also describes the evolution of interstellar matter and its differentiation during the accretion of the planets and the history of the Earth."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Isotope geology.
Interstellar matter.
Molecular evolution.
Matter.
Cosmology.
Author Kramers, Jan.
LC no. 2007053050
ISBN 9780521866477 (hbk.)
0521866472 (hbk.)