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Chronicling one of the greatest scientific adventures of our time (the istotopic detective work that has established a geologic chronology of the earth), this book provides a good introduction to modern geology.
Contents
The Genesis taboo; voyage to the center of the Earth; the geologic calendar; stones falling from the sky; the planetological adventure; from Newton to Mendeleyev; the cosmic palimpsest; societies of atoms; planet Earth; the kingdom of water. Appendix: the atomic structure of matter.
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