The Little Book of Planet Earth
(Sprache: Englisch)
Acknowledgments chapter 1 The Roots of Earth Sciences 1 Classical Scientific Thought 1 The Copernican Revolution 2 From Physics and Philosophy to Geology 4 The Age of the Earth 6 chapter 2 The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System 9 The Origins of the...
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Acknowledgments chapter 1 The Roots of Earth Sciences 1 Classical Scientific Thought 1 The Copernican Revolution 2 From Physics and Philosophy to Geology 4 The Age of the Earth 6 chapter 2 The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System 9 The Origins of the Solar System The Elements of the Solar System The Planets Circling the Sun chapter 3 The Formation of Earth and Moon 21 Similarities and Differences 21 Exploring the Moon chapter 4 The Interior of the Earth and the Role of Seismology Seismic Waves 28 The Earth's Interior 36 chapter 5 Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides 41 Describing the Earth's Shape Tides 44 Rotation 44 43 27 23 15 12 10 xiii xi chapter 6 The Earth's Magnetic Field 47 Establishing a Physical Concept Reversals of the Magnetic Field 51 Paleomagnetism chapter 7 Atom-Mineral-Rock 59 Crystallization 60 Minerals in Crust and Mantle 60 Rocks chapter 8 The Early Ages 71 The Archean 71 The Proterozoic 77 chapter 9 Radioactive Dating The Chemistry of Unstable Elements Determining the Age Applications of Radioactive Dating Techniques Carbon Dating 90 chapter10 Plate Tectonics Twentieth-Century Research Gathering Evidence 95 Drifting Plates 3 Pangea and Beyond 4 chapter11 The Crust of the Earth 7 The Moho 7 The Crust Hydrocarbons 4 Coal 9 Other Subsurface-based Resources 9 12 12 12 108 10 10 10 10 94 93 89 83 81 81 63 52 48 chapter12 Formation of Mountains and Basins Collisions Orogeny Sediment Basins
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Little Book of Planet Earth “
The Roots: An Introduction.- The Origins of Planet Earth.- Formation of the Earth and the Moon.- The Earth's Structure and the Role of Seismology.- Movement and Form, Weight and Tides of the Earth.- The Earth's Magnetic Field.- From Atom to Mineral and from Mineral to Rock.- The Early History of Earth.- Radioactive Age Determination and Its Meaning.- Plate Tectonics.- The Earth's Crust.- The Formation of Mountain Ranges and Basins.- New Insights - New Terms.- The Phanerozoic: Tectonic Events and the Role of Paleontology.- The Origins of Life.- Our Limited NaturalResources.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rolf Meissner
- 2002, 204 Seiten, Maße: 18,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer
- ISBN-10: 0387952586
- ISBN-13: 9780387952581
Sprache:
Englisch
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Science News-|"[The Little Book of Planet Earth] provides critical insights into the nature of Earth's composition, our understanding of Earth's magnetic field, and plate tectonics."
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