Deep Time
A journey through 4.5 billion years of our planet
Published on 2. September 2021
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-78739-743-9 (ISBN)
Description
Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us.
Through explanations of the latest research and over 200 fascinating images, Deep Time explores this evidence, from the visible layers in ancient rock to the hiss of static on the radio, and from fossilized shark's teeth to underwater forests. These relics of ancient epochs, many of which we can see and touch today, connect our present to the distant past and answer broader questions about our place in the timeline of the Earth.
Charting 4.5 billion years of geological history, this is the story of our world, from its birth to the dawn of civilization.
Through explanations of the latest research and over 200 fascinating images, Deep Time explores this evidence, from the visible layers in ancient rock to the hiss of static on the radio, and from fossilized shark's teeth to underwater forests. These relics of ancient epochs, many of which we can see and touch today, connect our present to the distant past and answer broader questions about our place in the timeline of the Earth.
Charting 4.5 billion years of geological history, this is the story of our world, from its birth to the dawn of civilization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
200 clr and b&w illus
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 249 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78739-743-9 (9781787397439)
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09/2021
Welbeck
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Person
Riley Black is the author of Skeleton Keys, My Beloved Brontosaurus and numerous other books. She has also written about prehistory for publications from National Geographic to Nature and is the resident palaeontologist for the Jurassic World franchise. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Content
Early Life * Neutrinos * Static * Baryon acoustic oscillations * The Hubble deep fields * Supernova 1997ff * Star clusters * The Wold Cottage meteorite * The missing nuclides * Moon rock * The Canyon Diablo meteorite * Zircons * Impossible lifeforms * The Allan Hills Martian meteorite * Boltwood's uraninite * Acaster gneiss * Stromatolites * Hintze Hall Pilbara iron rock * Snowball Earth * Detrital uraninite * The Grand Canyon - and more.