Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Earth We Live On The Story Of Geological Discovery full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Earth We Live On The Story Of Geological Discovery ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Ruth E. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Earth We Live on written by Ruth E. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth E. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Download or read book The earth we live on : The story of geological discovery written by Ruth E. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Earth We Live On written by Ruth Moore and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Ellen MOORE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (752 download)
Download or read book The Earth We Live On. The Story of Geological Discovery, Etc written by Ruth Ellen MOORE and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth E. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Earth We Live On; The Story of Geological Discovery. Drawings by Sue Allen written by Ruth E. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Dartnell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617894
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Origins written by Lewis Dartnell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.
Author : Ruth E. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Earth We Live on written by Ruth E. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Earth We Life On: the Story of Geological Discovery written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Fortey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307761185
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Life written by Richard Fortey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils. With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens. Ranging across multiple scientific disciplines, explicating in wonderfully clear and refreshing prose their findings and arguments--about the origins of life, the causes of species extinctions and the first appearance of man--Fortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won. Brimful of wit, fascinating personal experience and high scholarship, this book may well be our best introduction yet to the complex history of life on Earth. A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection With 32 pages of photographs
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544278
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters—each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon—Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet. Prothero follows in the footsteps of the scientists who asked—and answered—geology’s biggest questions: How do we know how old the earth is? What happened to the supercontinent Pangea? How did ocean rocks end up at the top of Mount Everest? What can we learn about our planet from meteorites and moon rocks? He answers these questions through expertly chosen case studies, such as Pliny the Younger’s firsthand account of the eruption of Vesuvius; the granite outcrops that led a Scottish scientist to theorize that the landscapes he witnessed were far older than Noah’s Flood; the salt and gypsum deposits under the Mediterranean Sea that indicate that it was once a desert; and how trying to date the age of meteorites revealed the dangers of lead poisoning. Each of these breakthroughs filled in a piece of the greater puzzle that is the earth, with scientific discoveries dovetailing with each other to offer an increasingly coherent image of the geologic past. Summarizing a wealth of information in an entertaining, approachable style, The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks is essential reading for the armchair geologist, the rock hound, and all who are curious about the earth beneath their feet.
Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620409X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Earth's Deep History written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tells the story . . . of how ‘natural philosophers’ developed the ideas of geology accepted today . . . Fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review Earth has been witness to dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? In this sweeping and accessible book, Martin J. S. Rudwick, the premier historian of the Earth sciences, tells the gripping human story of the gradual realization that the Earth’s history has not only been long but also astonishingly eventful. Rudwick begins in the seventeenth century with Archbishop James Ussher, who famously dated the creation of the cosmos to 4004 BC. His narrative later turns to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when geological evidence was used—and is still being used—to reconstruct a history of the Earth that is as varied and unpredictable as human history. itself. Along the way, Rudwick rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of the Earth’s deep history retains strong roots in Judeo-Christian ideas. Extensively illustrated, Earth’s Deep History is an engaging and impressive capstone to Rudwick’s distinguished career. “Deftly explains how ideas of natural history were embedded in cultural history.” —Nature “An engaging read for nonscientists and specialists alike.” —Library Journal “Wonderfully erudite and absorbing.” —Times Literary Supplement “Fascinating, well written, and novel . . . Essential.” —Choice “Thrilling.” —London Review of Books
Author : Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197502482
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Song of the Earth written by Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A loving portrayal of our precious planet that offers easy-to-grasp discussions of scientific concepts and detailed examinations of Earth's tectonic, biological, and paleontological forces... Did you know that the history of Earth can be revealed by examining everything on it? From the esoteric science of minerals to the interactions between humans and their environment, our planet provides answers to every question we could ask about its history and what lies ahead. As climate change impacts everything we do on our planet, now is the time to take a closer look at what messages Earth has for us: what does it mean when the wind blows or the ground shifts? In this book, geologist Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim reveals the history of our planet through a geologic lens and explains why everyone should care about it. Song of the Earth is a thrilling biography of our planet that equips readers with the scientific, historical, and philosophical symbiosis between humans and Earth. Ervin-Blankenheim explores geologic principles of deep time, plate tectonics, and change in life forms in plain English. The book is illustrated with striking maps, diagrams, and pictures, allowing her to dissect everything from how a roiling, molten planet cooled to how the first cyanobacteria began to oxygenate the atmosphere to how the atmosphere has changed over time. Ervin-Blankenheim journeys through the science with ease and provides narrative sections about pioneering geologists and their groundbreaking discoveries. In viewing the planet as the integrated ecosystem it is, Ervin-Blankenheim showcases how land, water, life, and the atmosphere maintain an elegant yet delicate balance--one that, based on the author's evidence of current trends in the context of past planetary cataclysm, appears to be under imminent threat. At times both gripping and lovingly poetic, Song of the Earth shows not only how Earth has influenced life, but also how life has distinctly shaped our planet.
Author : Andrew H. Knoll
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062853937
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Earth written by Andrew H. Knoll and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP) “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. 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. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).
Author : Simon Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780563487074
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Earth Story written by Simon Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By describing the remarkable forces that formed and shaped our ever-changing world, EARTH STORY gives us a new understanding of the planet and our place within its evolution. When and how was the Earth formed? What is the link between earthquakes, volcanoes and the creation of the continents? How do mountains affect our climate? What triggers Ice Ages? EARTH STORY answers these and many other questions, and tells the amazing story of our planet and its constantly changing nature. Two centuries ago, scientists began to investigate the history of the Earth by examining the rocks beneath its surface and began to formulate the astonishing concept of geological time. Using this discovery as their starting point, the authors of EARTH STORY unravel the fascinating history of the Earth from its earliest beginnings to the dawn of human civilization. Two themes emerge as this compelling story unfolds. Firstly, from its molten core to the outermost reaches of its atmosphere, our planet operates as one vast interlinked system. Aspects of our landscape and climate that seem at first quite distinct - such as earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciers and monsoons - are in fact intimately related to each other. Secondly, the active geology of our world has been vital to the origin of life and the progress of evolution. David Sington and Simon Lamb tackle these ideas, using full-colour illustrations, stunning photography and the latest scientific thinking.
Author : Max B. Frederick
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546647423
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)
Download or read book How the Earth Was Formed written by Max B. Frederick and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares knowledge of pre-historic things from two dissimilar sources. One source is ancient, the other modern. It presents knowledge from both sources in chronological order and shows the remarkable similarity demonstrating the fact the ancient source of knowledge had it right long before modern science discovered the same things. The first source is the written record in ancient scriptures of the bible. The second source is the evidence that is recorded in geology and astronomy. This information is presented here as a timeline of how everything around us came to be what it is today. Before the beginning of the twentieth century, around the year 1900, nobody knew that "And the Earth was without form and void. And Darkness was upon the face of the deep..." The second verse of the bible, Genesis 1:2 (KJV) was an introduction to several biblical accounts that told the same story as this book tells. Scientists back then had no knowledge of the specific event it was referring to. That event, and the circumstances around it, had not yet been discovered by modern science and the long ago understanding of what it meant had long since been lost and the verse was simply preserved and carried along as some religious theobabble by dedicated theologians. Theologians did not recognize it for what it said. They did not even imagine such an event was in the history of our planet. They assumed it referred to something else. This and many other biblical references referring to the same thing appeared to talk of water covering the earth. Theologians assumed they were references to the flood of Noah. They did not even suspect they referred to an earlier more significant event that is now becoming realized by modern science. Scientists did not understand the significance of the event that verse referred to. Little did they know that the continents are temporary in the sense of the long run. Little did they know that the continents are floating, buoyed up by the mantle below. Little did they know that there had been a time when the entire surface of this planet had been covered with water before the continents were formed. It is the dry land of those continents that verse refers to, not the planet earth. It should be obvious. The bible itself defines the word earth, to be the dry land. It is described in detail in the ancient scriptures: And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so. And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. Gen 1:9,10 You see, the word "Earth" seen in the second verse of the bible, does not refer to the planet, but to the solid surface parts of the planet as opposed to the oceans. It refers to the "dry land" of the continents. At one time in the history of our planet, the "earth" was not formed into the dry land of the continents. And now it is. Currently, only about 29 percent of the surface of out planet is above sea level. The continents are isolated piles of earth piled up over three miles high above the sea floor. That leaves the rest of the solid surface of the planet-about 71 percent of it, to be a sea floor an average of over two and a half miles below sea level. It was a big deal, and still is. As of yet, the mechanism that caused the "forming of the earth,"-the gathering of the dry land into continents, - is still little understood. That mechanism still operates today, keeping the dry land piled up into continents so they do not spread out over the sea floor under the ocean. It is a situation that is unique to our planet alone among other nearby heavenly bodies studied by scientists.
Author : Jan Zalasiewicz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622672
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Earth After Us written by Jan Zalasiewicz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long dead, so too might they decode the rocks. The Earth After Us takes a novel approach to show how geologists unravel the information in the rocks. As the alien scientists start investigating the strata, what story will they tell of us? What kind of fossils will humans leave behind? What will happen to cities, cars, and plastic cups? How thick a layer will the 'human stratum' be? And will it be obvious which species dominated the planet?
Author : Stephen G. Brush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521552134
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Planetary Physics written by Stephen G. Brush and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transmuted Past summarizes the attempts to estimate the age of the Earth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
