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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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Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
2012.
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306 pages ; 24 cm. |
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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.