A short history of planet earth : mountains, mammals, fire, and ice / J.D. Macdougall.
A short history of planet earth : mountains, mammals, fire, and ice / J.D. Macdougall.
A short history of planet earth : mountains, mammals, fire, and ice / J.D. Macdougall.
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New York : Wiley, c1996.
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T0390098
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English
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vi, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Reading the Rocks -- Ch. 2. Early Days -- Ch. 3. Wonderful Life -- Ch. 4. The Proterozoic Eon -- Ch. 5. Dance of the Plates -- Ch. 6. Nature's Timepieces --Ch. 7. The Cambrian Explosion -- Ch. 8. Fish, Forests, and Gondwanaland: The Paleozoic Era -- Ch. 9. From Pangea to (Almost) the Modern W...
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New York : Wiley, c1996.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1996.
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Four and a half billion years long, Earth's history is the fascinating, magnificent product of creation, transformation, evolution, and extinction. A Short History of Planet Earth chronicles this complex life story in an accessible and thoroughly engaging single volume that charts the geologic and biological life of our dynamic planet. A Short Hist...
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A short history of planet earth : mountains, mammals, fire, and ice / J.D. Macdougall.
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Wiley popular science.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.
Transferred from N551.7/39.
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T0390098
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0471197033 (paper : alk. paper)
9780471148050 (cloth : alk. paper)
0471148059 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780471197034 (paper : alk. paper)
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551.7
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991003672999702626
