Title: A short history of planet earth
First published: 1996
Description: Four and a half billion years long, Earth's history is the fascinating, magnificent product of creation, transformation, evolution, and extinction. A Short History of Planet Earth chronicles this complex life story in an accessible and thoroughly engaging single volume that charts the geologic and biological life of our dynamic planet.

A Short History of Planet Earth, the ideal, concise introduction to earth and life sciences, includes a handy glossary of geologic terms, and forty information-packed illustrations.
Subjects: Historical geology, Earth sciences, Science, Earth (planet)
LC classification: QE28.3 .M33 1996