A brief history of Earth four billion years in eight chapters

"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 co...

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Main Author: Knoll, Andrew H. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Custom House, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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300 |a 260 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 20 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Chemical Earth -- Physical Earth -- Biological Earth -- Oxygen Earth -- Animal Earth -- Green Earth -- Catastrophic Earth -- Human Earth. 
651 0 |a Earth (Planet)  |x Origin. 
650 0 |a Life  |x Origin. 
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