Earth: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Earth: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192803078

ISBN-10: 0192803077

ISBN-13: 9780192803078

Edition: 2002

Authors: Martin Redfern

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For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves were drifting across the surface of the globe and that oceans were being created and destroyed. Secondly, pictures of the entire planet were returned from space. As the astronomer Fred Hoyle had predicted, this 'let loose an idea as powerful as any in history'. Suddenly, the Earth began to be viewed as a single entity; a dynamic, interacting whole, controlled by complex processes we scarcely understood. It began to seem less solid. As one…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 4.45" wide x 6.97" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Martin Redfern is a senior producer in the BBC Radio Science Unit. He joined the BBC as a studio manager after graduating from University College, London, where he studied geology. He has spent time as a science producer in TV and as science news editor for BBC World Service. Most of his work now is on science feature programs for Radio 4. He has written extensively on science for magazines and newspapers.



Acknowledgements


List of illustrations



Dynamic planet



Deep time



Deep Earth



Under the sea



Drifting continents



Volcanoes



When the ground shakes


Epilogue


Further reading


Index