The Miracle PlanetA richly illustrated portrait of the earth drawn by major scientists. Examines the processes that have shaped our planet into a home for life and the forces that cloud it's future. This book gives a unified narrative of Earth's 4.6 billion-year history and the progress science is making in decyphering its mysteries. |
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... Pangaea . Over the millennia , Pangaea's surface cracked , sank , and eventually separated into several segments . These fragments , which Wegener called continental plates , began drifting across the ocean floor , a process which is ...
... Pangaea . Over the millennia , Pangaea's surface cracked , sank , and eventually separated into several segments . These fragments , which Wegener called continental plates , began drifting across the ocean floor , a process which is ...
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... Pangaea , or " all lands . " Under this immense , insulating blanket of thick continental rock , magma continued to build up under hotspots . Eventually , the thermal forces began to △ Fossils of ammonites that lived 50 million years ...
... Pangaea , or " all lands . " Under this immense , insulating blanket of thick continental rock , magma continued to build up under hotspots . Eventually , the thermal forces began to △ Fossils of ammonites that lived 50 million years ...
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... Pangaea began to separate was more than 500 miles wide , and the compression of its bed into a width of only 60 miles resulted in the dramatically folded rockfaces of the Alps . MINERAL CONCENTRATIONS The movement of lithospheric plates ...
... Pangaea began to separate was more than 500 miles wide , and the compression of its bed into a width of only 60 miles resulted in the dramatically folded rockfaces of the Alps . MINERAL CONCENTRATIONS The movement of lithospheric plates ...
Contents
THE HEAT WITHIN | 37 |
LIFE FROM THE SEA | 77 |
RIDDLES OF SAND AND ICE | 163 |
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