| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Stardust -- From the depths of the earth -- Distant lands -- To the rendezvous -- The sea -- Ghosts observed -- Ghosts in absentia -- Where on earth? -- Gold! -- The oil window -- Making mountains -- Breaking the surface -- Futures |
| Summary |
This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginable violence in distal realms of the Universe, in the Big Bang and in supernova explosions and continues amid the construction of the Solar System. Jan Zalasiewicz shows the almost incredible complexity present in such a sm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Historical geology.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
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Historical geology
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| SUBJECT |
Earth (Planet) -- History
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| Subject |
Earth (Planet)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010935058 |
| ISBN |
9780191612831 |
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0191612839 |
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1283296861 |
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9781283296861 |
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9786613296863 |
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6613296864 |
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