Story of Earth The First 4. 5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

Name: Story of Earth The First 4. 5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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ISBN: 9780670023554

ISBN-10: 0670023558

ISBN-13: 9780670023554

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert M. Hazen

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Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. 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 System, if not the entire cosmos.With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s passion for the ground beneath our feet, Hazen explains how changes on an atomic level translate into dramatic shifts in Earth’s makeup…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



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


Acknowledgments


Index