The Little Book of planet earth

• 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
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Earth Sciences.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.