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Hardcover:
9780387952581 | Copernicus Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents a chronological description of Earth's evolution, including the development of geological and cosmological theories, the Big Bang, the formation of the Earth and the Moon, geological structure, and biological evolution.
Paperback:
9781441929242 | Copernicus Books, December 10, 2010, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: 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 Earthâs Interior 36 chapter 5 Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides 41 Describing the Earthâs Shape Tides 44 Rotation 44 43 27 23 15 12 10 xiii xi chapter 6 The Earthâs Magnetic Field 47 Establishing a Physical Concept Reversals of the Magnetic Field 51 Paleomagnetism chapter 7 AtomâMineralâRock 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
Hardcover:
9780875905228 | Amer Geophysical Union, October 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geodynamics Series, Volume 22.
Hardcover:
9780124889507 | Academic Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $73.95 | also contains Stressed Out About Drug Math
Paperback:
9780124889514 | Academic Pr, April 28, 1986, cover price $72.95
Miscellaneous:
9780080954653 | Ebrary, April 1, 1986, cover price $73.95
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