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The little book of planet Earth /

Meissner, Rolf.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The little book of planet Earth // Rolf Meissner.
Author:	Meissner, Rolf.
Published:	New York :Copernicus, : c2002.,
Description:	xiii, 202 p. :ill., maps ;19 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Machine generated contents note: chapter 1: The Roots of Earth Sciences -- Classical Scientific Thought -- The Copernican Revolution -- From Physics and Philosophy to Geology -- The Age of the Earth -- chapter 2: The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System -- 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 -- Similarities and Differences -- Exploring the Moon -- chapter 4: The Interior of the Earth and the Role of Seismology -- Seismic Waves -- The Earth's Interior -- chapter 5: Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides -- Describing the Earth's Shape -- Tides -- Rotation -- chapter 6: The Earth's Magnetic Field -- Establishing a Physical Concept -- Reversals of the Magnetic Field -- Paleomagnetism -- chapter 7: Atom-Mineral-Rock -- Crystallization -- Minerals in Crust and Mantle -- Rocks -- chapter 8: The Early Ages -- The Archean -- The Proterozoic -- chapter 9: Radioactive Dating -- The Chemistry of Unstable Elements -- Determining the Age -- Applications of Radioactive Dating Techniques -- Carbon Dating -- chapter 10: Plate Tectonics -- Twentieth-Century Research -- Gathering Evidence -- Drifting Plates -- Pangea and Beyond -- chapter 11: The Crust of the Earth -- The Moho -- The Crust -- Hydrocarbons -- Coal -- Other Subsurface-based Resources -- chapter 12: Formation of Mountains and Basins -- Collisions -- Orogeny -- Sediment Basins -- chapter 13: New Discoveries, New Concepts -- Discoveries -- New Seismological Concepts -- chapter 14: The Phanerozoic: -- The Last 600 Million Years -- The Evolution of Life -- The Eras of the Phanerozoic -- chapter 15: Biological Evolution -- A Product of Chance -- Early Life Hypotheses -- Multicellular Life -- Human Evolution and Climate -- epilogue Our Limited Resources -- Nuclear Energy -- Alternative Energy Sources -- Outlook -- Further Reading -- Index.
Subject:	Earth. -
Online resource:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2001060201.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2001060201.html
ISBN:	0387952586 (hbk.) :

The little book of planet Earth /
Meissner, Rolf.

The little book of planet Earth /Rolf Meissner. - New York :Copernicus,c2002. - xiii, 202 p. :ill., maps ;19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) and index.

Machine generated contents note: chapter 1: The Roots of Earth Sciences -- Classical Scientific Thought -- The Copernican Revolution -- From Physics and Philosophy to Geology -- The Age of the Earth -- chapter 2: The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System -- 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 -- Similarities and Differences -- Exploring the Moon -- chapter 4: The Interior of the Earth and the Role of Seismology -- Seismic Waves -- The Earth's Interior -- chapter 5: Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides -- Describing the Earth's Shape -- Tides -- Rotation -- chapter 6: The Earth's Magnetic Field -- Establishing a Physical Concept -- Reversals of the Magnetic Field -- Paleomagnetism -- chapter 7: Atom-Mineral-Rock -- Crystallization -- Minerals in Crust and Mantle -- Rocks -- chapter 8: The Early Ages -- The Archean -- The Proterozoic -- chapter 9: Radioactive Dating -- The Chemistry of Unstable Elements -- Determining the Age -- Applications of Radioactive Dating Techniques -- Carbon Dating -- chapter 10: Plate Tectonics -- Twentieth-Century Research -- Gathering Evidence -- Drifting Plates -- Pangea and Beyond -- chapter 11: The Crust of the Earth -- The Moho -- The Crust -- Hydrocarbons -- Coal -- Other Subsurface-based Resources -- chapter 12: Formation of Mountains and Basins -- Collisions -- Orogeny -- Sediment Basins -- chapter 13: New Discoveries, New Concepts -- Discoveries -- New Seismological Concepts -- chapter 14: The Phanerozoic: -- The Last 600 Million Years -- The Evolution of Life -- The Eras of the Phanerozoic -- chapter 15: Biological Evolution -- A Product of Chance -- Early Life Hypotheses -- Multicellular Life -- Human Evolution and Climate -- epilogue Our Limited Resources -- Nuclear Energy -- Alternative Energy Sources -- Outlook -- Further Reading -- Index.

ISBN: 0387952586 (hbk.) :EUR14.95

LCCN: 2001060201Subjects--Geographical Terms:

538437
Earth.

LC Class. No.: QB631 / .M4513 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 550

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