Earth's deep history
Subtitle: how it was discovered and why it matters
By: Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780226203935
Subjects: Natural history; Religion and science; Earth sciences; Historical geology; History
Description: Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: Making history a science; title: Nature's own antiquities; title: Sketching big pictures; title: Expanding time and history; title: Bursting the limits of time; title: Worlds before Adam; title: Disturbing a consensus; title: Human history in nature's history; title: Eventful deep history; title: Global histories of the earth; title: One planet among many; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix : Creationists out of their depth.