The story of Earth the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet /

In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere--of rocks and living matter--has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar Sys...

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Main Author: Hazen, Robert M., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2012.
Physical Description:
306 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Earth (Planet)
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Birth : the formation of Earth
  • The Big Thwack : the formation of the moon
  • Black Earth : the first basalt crust
  • Blue Earth : the formation of the oceans
  • Gray Earth : the first granite crust
  • Living Earth : the origins of life
  • Red Earth : photosynthesis and the Great Oxidation Event
  • The "boring" billion : the mineral revolution
  • White Earth : the snowball-hothouse cycle
  • Green Earth : the rise of the terrestrial biosphere
  • The future : scenarios of a changing planet
  • Epilogue.

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