Earth: In 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries (TPB)
Palmer, Douglas
Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World: clay and quartz, feldspar and diamond, satellite image of deltaic muds, sandy desert, feldspar crystals, diamond, crystal, the water cycle, seawater, clouds, glacier ice, volcanic gas propelling pyroclastic flow. Earth`s Engine: computer model of flow in the core and the magnetic field, major fault zone San Andreas or East African Rift; folded rocks in mountains one of the alpine `nappes` or Zagros mountain folds and erupting volcano. Earth`s Changing Face: Earth`s oldest rocks (Greenland or Pilbara, Australia), stromatolites...
ISBN: 978-0-85738-501-7
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2013