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040			_aJSTOR _beng _erda _epn _cJSTOR _dNT
020			_a9780231544276 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aQE31 _b.S767 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aProthero, Donald R., _e1
245	1	0	_aThe story of the Earth in 25 rocks : _btales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them / _cDonald R. Prothero.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 354 pages) : _billustrations, maps.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aVolcanic tuff : Vulcan's wrath : the eruption of Vesuvius -- _tNative copper : the iceman and the island of copper -- _tCassiterite : the "isles of tin" and the bronze age -- _tAngular unconformity : "no vestige of a beginning" : the immensity of geologic time -- _tIgneous dikes : the "Earth's great heat engine" : the origin of magmas -- _tCoal : the rock that burns fires the industrial revolution -- _tJurassic park : the map that changed the world : William Smith and the rocks of Britain -- _tRadioactive uranium : the atomic clock : Arthur Holmes and the age of the Earth -- _tChondritic meteorites : messengers from space : the origin of the solar system -- _tIron-nickel meteorites : the cores of other planets -- _tMoon rocks : green cheese or anorthosite : the origin of the moon -- _tThe first sediments : early oceans and life? evidence in a grain of sand -- _tStromatolites : microbial condos : cyanobacteria and the oldest life -- _tBanded iron formation : mountains of iron : the Earth's early atmosphere -- _tTurbidites : archean sediments and submarine landslides -- _tDiamictites : tropical glaciers and the snowball Earth -- _tExotic terranes : paradox in rocks : wandering fossils and traveling landmasses -- _tJigsaw-puzzle bedrock : Alfred Wegener and continental drift -- _tChalk : the cretaceous seaway and greenhouse planet -- _tThe iridium layer : the death of the dinosaurs -- _tLodestones : how paleomagic launched plate tectonics -- _tBlueschists : the puzzle of subduction zones -- _tTransform faults : earthquake! the San Andreas Fault -- _tMessinian evaporites : the mediterranean was a desert -- _tGlacial erraticts : a poet, a politician, a professor, and a janitor, and the discovery of the ice ages.
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650		0	_aGeology _vPopular works.
650		0	_aGeologists.
650		0	_aEarth sciences _vPopular works.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1662838&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell