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Earth Time: Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon
Contributor(s): Palmer, Douglas (Editor)
ISBN: 0470022213     ISBN-13: 9780470022214
Publisher: Wiley
OUR PRICE:   $23.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2005
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Annotation: Walk from London to North Wales, as a certain William Smith did, or from the top of the Grand Canyon to the river bed and you will walk through history from the present time to the deepest and most secret time in the history of the Earth.

In this fascinating tale Douglas Palmer explores mankinds quest to understand the history of the planet on which we live. As nineteenth century explorers delved deeper into the hidden parts of the visible world, so scientists of the time explored the hidden depths of the Earths past. Douglas Palmer reveals the story of humankinds search for a better understanding of the Earths story from the biblical view through to the most up-to-date rock sampling methods available to science today.
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geology
Dewey: 550
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.06" W x 7.52" (1.22 lbs) 304 pages
 
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The dramatic history of planet Earth and the rocky road to understanding the past
  • A probing account of the history of the earth and an introduction to the many eccentric characters that have attempted to understand its origins.
  • Full of fascinating anecdotes about 19th century explorers and natural philosophers who first carved up Earth's history just as others were carving up the globe.
  • Unravels the fascinating history of rock strata and the implications they have had on accepted theories on the Earth's life.
  • Considers the future of the earth, and what a repeat of some of the catastrophic events of the earth's past, such as major earthquakes and asteroid collisions, could mean for life today.