The Little Book of planet earth

Acknowledgments chapter 1 The Roots of Earth Sciences 1 Classical Scientific Thought 1 The Copernican Revolution 2 From Physics and Philosophy to Geology 4 The Age of the Earth 6 chapter 2 The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System 9 The Origins of the Solar System The Elements of the Solar System...

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Main Author: Meissner, Rolf. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2002.
Series:Little Book Series
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505 0 # |a The Roots of Earth Sciences -- The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System -- The Formation of Earth and Moon -- The Interior of the Earth and the Role of Seismology -- Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides -- The EarthỚ"s Magnetic Field -- AtomỚ MineralỚ Rock -- The Early Ages -- Radioactive Dating -- Plate Tectonics -- The Crust of the Earth -- Formation of Mountains and Basins -- New Discoveries, New Concepts -- The Phanerozoic: The Last 600 Million Years -- Biological Evolution -- Epilogue Our limited resources. 
520 # # |a Acknowledgments chapter 1 The Roots of Earth Sciences 1 Classical Scientific Thought 1 The Copernican Revolution 2 From Physics and Philosophy to Geology 4 The Age of the Earth 6 chapter 2 The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System 9 The Origins of the Solar System The Elements of the Solar System The Planets Circling the Sun chapter 3 The Formation of Earth and Moon 21 Similarities and Differences 21 Exploring the Moon chapter 4 The Interior of the Earth and the Role of Seismology Seismic Waves 28 The EarthỚ"s Interior 36 chapter 5 Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides 41 Describing the EarthỚ"s Shape Tides 44 Rotation 44 43 27 23 15 12 10 xiii xi chapter 6 The EarthỚ"s Magnetic Field 47 Establishing a Physical Concept Reversals of the Magnetic Field 51 Paleomagnetism chapter 7 AtomỚ MineralỚ Rock 59 Crystallization 60 Minerals in Crust and Mantle 60 Rocks chapter 8 The Early Ages 71 The Archean 71 The Proterozoic 77 chapter 9 Radioactive Dating The Chemistry of Unstable Elements Determining the Age Applications of Radioactive Dating Techniques Carbon Dating 90 chapter10 Plate Tectonics Twentieth-Century Research Gathering Evidence 95 Drifting Plates 3 Pangea and Beyond 4 chapter11 The Crust of the Earth 7 The Moho 7 The Crust Hydrocarbons 4 Coal 9 Other Subsurface-based Resources 9 12 12 12 108 10 10 10 10 94 93 89 83 81 81 63 52 48 chapter12 Formation of Mountains and Basins Collisions Orogeny Sediment Basins. 
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