A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Knoll Andrew H.)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

For every Earth resident, an essential primer by Harvard's acclaimed geologist
"A sublime chronicle of our planet. -Booklist, STARRED review Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and
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