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The Next Supercontinent

Author : Ross Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824926
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Next Supercontinent written by Ross Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally recognized scientist shows that Earth’s separate continents, once together in Pangea, are again on a collision course. You’ve heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart some 175 million years ago to give us our current continents, but what about its predecessors, Rodinia or Columbia? These “supercontinents” from Earth’s past provide evidence that land repeatedly joins and separates. While scientists debate what that next supercontinent will look like—and what to name it—they all agree: one is coming. In this engaging work, geophysicist Ross Mitchell invites readers to remote (and sometimes treacherous) lands for evidence of past supercontinents, delves into the phenomena that will birth the next, and presents the case for the future supercontinent of Amasia, defined by the merging of North America and Asia. Introducing readers to plate tectonic theory through fieldwork adventures and accessible scientific descriptions, Mitchell considers flows deep in the Earth’s mantle to explain Amasia’s future formation and shows how this developing theory can illuminate other planetary mysteries. He then poses the inevitable question: how can humanity survive the intervening 200 million years necessary to see Amasia? An expert on the supercontinent cycle, Mitchell offers readers a front-row seat to a slow-motion mystery and an ongoing scientific debate.

Supercontinent

Author : Ted Nield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026599
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Supercontinent written by Ted Nield and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Supercontinent Cycle from the earliest recorded time to the geological discoveries of today including the drifting of the continents and the evolution of dinosaurs.

Continents and Supercontinents

Author : John J. W. Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195165896
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Continents and Supercontinents written by John J. W. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the origin of continents, and the accretion and breakup of supercontinents through earth history. This book also shows how these processes affected the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life.

Everything Under the Heavens

Author : Howard W. French
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353332
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Everything Under the Heavens written by Howard W. French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer. Steeped in deeply researched history as well as on-the-ground reporting, this is French at his revelatory best.

A Synthesis of the Galápagos

Author : Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 103640188X
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis A Synthesis of the Galápagos by : Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C

Download or read book A Synthesis of the Galápagos written by Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are hundreds of books and thousands of scientific articles about the Galápagos. This volume is distinctive. The authors, Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C and Avelina Espinosa, synthesize, integrate, and conceptualize the most recent evolutionary-biology research being conducted in the archipelago’s terrestrial and aquatic environments; the conflicts resulting from human interactions with nature, including local population growth and tourism practices in the context of short- and long-term conservation efforts; and make predictions about the destiny of the Galápagos’ unique biodiversity and landscapes under various scenarios of climate-change impacts, urbanization trends, diversification of tourism, and conservation investments. Offering over 260 figures and diagrams, this work will appeal to a broad audience, including professors in academia, college instructors, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and research undergraduates. Another target audience is study-abroad and international field-trip instructors and their students who travel to the Galápagos year-round. Science writers and policymakers will find in this book useful information to discuss and debate about imminent environmental threats to afflict the Galápagos as a consequence of human population growth, tourism practices, and climate change.

Encyclopedia of Geology

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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0081029098
Total Pages : 5634 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Geology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 5634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Geology, Second Edition presents in six volumes state-of-the-art reviews on the various aspects of geologic research, all of which have moved on considerably since the writing of the first edition. New areas of discussion include extinctions, origins of life, plate tectonics and its influence on faunal provinces, new types of mineral and hydrocarbon deposits, new methods of dating rocks, and geological processes. Users will find this to be a fundamental resource for teachers and students of geology, as well as researchers and non-geology professionals seeking up-to-date reviews of geologic research. Provides a comprehensive and accessible one-stop shop for information on the subject of geology, explaining methodologies and technical jargon used in the field Highlights connections between geology and other physical and biological sciences, tackling research problems that span multiple fields Fills a critical gap of information in a field that has seen significant progress in past years Presents an ideal reference for a wide range of scientists in earth and environmental areas of study

From a Super Continent to Seven | The Pangaea and the Continental Drift Grade 5 | Children's Earth Sciences Books

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541957024
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book From a Super Continent to Seven | The Pangaea and the Continental Drift Grade 5 | Children's Earth Sciences Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that millions of years ago the Earth only had one super continent? If you look at a globe today, you’d notice how continents fit into each other like puzzle pieces. But how did the super continent break apart and become seven different continents? Let’s look at the mechanics of the continental drift in this book for fifth graders. Grab a copy today.

Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene

Author : Scott L. Wing
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780813723693
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene written by Scott L. Wing and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Continents and Supercontinents

Author : John J. W. Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019029020X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Continents and Supercontinents written by John J. W. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinents frames that controversy by giving all the necessary background on how continental crust is formed, modified, and destroyed, and what forces move plates. It also discusses how these processes affect the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life. Rogers and Santosh begin with a survey of plate tectonics, and go on to describe the composition, production, and destruction of continental and oceanic crust, and show that cratons or assemblies of cratons became the first true continents, approximately one billion years after the earliest continental crust evolved. The middle part of the book concentrates on supercontinents, beginning with a discussion of types of orogenic belts, distinguishing those that formed by closure of an ocean basin within the belt and those that formed by intracontinental deformation caused by stresses generated elsewhere. This information permits discrimination between models of supercontinent formation by accretion of numerous small terranes and by reorganization of large old continental blocks. This background leads to a description of the assembly and fragmentation of supercontinents throughout earth history. The record is most difficult to interpret for the oldest supercontinent, Columbia, and also controversial for Rodinia, the next youngest supercontinent. The configurations and pattern of breakup of Gondwana and Pangea are well known, but some aspects of their assembly are unclear. The book also briefly describes the histories of continents after the breakup of Pangea, and discusses how changes in the composition of seawater, climate, and life may have been affected by the sizes and locations of continents and supercontinents.

New Scientist

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book New Scientist written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth

Author : Lauri J. J Pesonen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128185341
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth written by Lauri J. J Pesonen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth offers a systematic examination of Precambrian cratons and supercontinents. Through detailed maps of drift histories and paleogeography of each continent, this book examines topics related to Earth’s tectonic evolution prior to Pangea, including plate kinematics, orogenic development, and paleoenvironments. Additionally, this book discusses the methodologies used, principally paleomagnetism and tectonostratigraphy, and addresses geophysical topics of mantle dynamics and geodynamo evolution over billions of years. Structured clearly with consistent coverage for Precambrian cratons, this book combines state-of-the-art paleomagnetic and geochronologic data to reconstruct the paleogeography of the Earth in the context of major climatic events such as global glaciations. It is an ideal, up-to-date reference for geoscientists and geographers looking for answers to questions surrounding the tectonic evolution of Earth. Provides robust paleogeographies of Precambrian cratons based on high-quality paleomagnetic and geochronologic data and critically tested by global geological datasets Includes links to updated databases for the Precambrian such as PALEOMAGIA and the Global Paleomagnetic Database (GPMDB) Presents full-color maps of the drift histories of each continent as well as their paleogeographies Discusses key questions regarding continental drift, the supercontinent cycle, and the geomagnetic dipole hypothesis and analyzes palaeography in the context of Earth’s holistic evolution

After Man

Author : Dougal Dixen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911081012
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book After Man written by Dougal Dixen and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981 St Martin's Press published After Man, the first edition of palaeontologist Dougal Dixon's vision of an 'alternative evolution': one without mankind. To some, this was seen as sacrilege, but Dixon himself only ever saw the decision to obliterate his own species from his vision as a practical one.

New Scientist and Science Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Scientist and Science Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Earth History and Palaeogeography

Author : Trond H. Torsvik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107105323
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Earth History and Palaeogeography written by Trond H. Torsvik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

The Future is Wild

Author : Dougal Dixon
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 1552977234
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Future is Wild written by Dougal Dixon and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents speculative evolutionary futures during periods 5 million, 100 million, and 200 million years after the demise of humans.

American Scientist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Scientist written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origin of Continents and Oceans

Author : Alfred Wegener
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486617084
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Continents and Oceans written by Alfred Wegener and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915 Alfred Wegener's seminal work describing the continental drift was first published in German. Wegener explained various phenomena of historical geology, geomorphy, paleontology, paleoclimatology, and similar areas in terms of continental drift. This edition includes new data to support his theories, helping to refute the opponents of his controversial views. 64 illustrations.