A brief history of Earth : four billion years in eight chapters
(2021)
By:
Knoll, Andrew H.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
525/KNOLL,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Custom House, [2021]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062853912, 0062853910 :, 0062853910, 9780062853912
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Chemical Earth -- Physical Earth -- Biological Earth -- Oxygen Earth -- Animal Earth -- Green Earth -- Catastrophic Earth -- Human Earth
"Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going."--