TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prothero,Donald R.
TI  - The story of the Earth in 25 rocks: tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them 
SN  - 9780231544276
AV  - QE31 .S767 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Geology
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Geologists
KW  - Earth sciences
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Volcanic tuff : Vulcan's wrath : the eruption of Vesuvius --; Native copper : the iceman and the island of copper --; Cassiterite : the "isles of tin" and the bronze age --; Angular unconformity : "no vestige of a beginning" : the immensity of geologic time --; Igneous dikes : the "Earth's great heat engine" : the origin of magmas --; Coal : the rock that burns fires the industrial revolution --; Jurassic park : the map that changed the world : William Smith and the rocks of Britain --; Radioactive uranium : the atomic clock : Arthur Holmes and the age of the Earth --; Chondritic meteorites : messengers from space : the origin of the solar system --; Iron-nickel meteorites : the cores of other planets --; Moon rocks : green cheese or anorthosite : the origin of the moon --; The first sediments : early oceans and life? evidence in a grain of sand --; Stromatolites : microbial condos : cyanobacteria and the oldest life --; Banded iron formation : mountains of iron : the Earth's early atmosphere --; Turbidites : archean sediments and submarine landslides --; Diamictites : tropical glaciers and the snowball Earth --; Exotic terranes : paradox in rocks : wandering fossils and traveling landmasses --; Jigsaw-puzzle bedrock : Alfred Wegener and continental drift --; Chalk : the cretaceous seaway and greenhouse planet --; The iridium layer : the death of the dinosaurs --; Lodestones : how paleomagic launched plate tectonics --; Blueschists : the puzzle of subduction zones --; Transform faults : earthquake! the San Andreas Fault --; Messinian evaporites : the mediterranean was a desert --; Glacial erraticts : a poet, a politician, a professor, and a janitor, and the discovery of the ice ages; 2; b
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