Euan G. Nisbet: The Young Earth | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780045500499 | The Young Earth | An introduction to Archaean geology | Euan G. Nisbet

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Beschreibung

'What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing, are difficult to interpret, dusty, and do not fit well in the neatly ordered contents of a house of learning. Archaean geology, which is the study of the Earth's history in the period from after 9 the end of planetary accretion (4.5-4.4 x 10 years ago) up to the beginning 9 of the Proterozoic (2.5 x 10 years ago) is much the same - a parcel of old stones seemingly impossible to understand. Yet these stones contain the history of our origins: they can tell us a story that is interesting not just to the geologist (for whom this book is primarily written) but instead addresses the human condition in general.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Background: Concepts and field evidence.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Geochronology and other uses of isotopic analysis.- 3 Archaean terrains: the available geological evidence.- II Reconstructing the Archaean Earth.- 4 The beginnings of life.- 5 Archaean continents.- 6 Archaean volcanism.- 7 Mineral deposits in Archaean rocks.- 8 Models of the early Earth.- Glossary of geological terms for non-geologists.- References.- Author Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1987
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xvii 402 S. 134 s/w Illustr. 402 p. 134 illus.
ISBN-13:	9780045500499
ISBN-10:	0045500495
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nisbet, Euan G.
Hersteller:	Springer Springer Netherland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Euan G. Nisbet
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.07.1987
Gewicht:	0,639 kg