Earth's deep history : how it was discovered and why it matters / Martin J. S. Rudwick.
Earth's deep history : how it was discovered and why it matters / Martin J. S. Rudwick.
Earth's deep history : how it was discovered and why it matters / Martin J. S. Rudwick.
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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G 2015/634
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Making history a science. The science of chronology ; Dating world history ; Periods of world history ; Noah's Flood as history ; The finite cosmos ; The threat of eternalism -- Nature's own antiquities. Historians and antiquaries ; Natural antiquities ; New ideas about fossils ; New ideas about his...
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways.
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Earth's deep history : how it was discovered and why it matters / Martin J. S. Rudwick.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.
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ebook version 9780226204093.
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G 2015/634
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74VKOdbBXrzd
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ISBN
022620393X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226203935 (cloth : alkaline paper)
DDC
550
MMS ID
991022406599702626
