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Earth, in 100 groundbreaking discoveries, Douglas Palmer

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Earth

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Douglas Palmer

in 100 groundbreaking discoveries

A journey back through the evolutionary history of our planet, from the origins and formation of the earth

Introduction -- Birth of a planet -- Earth's oldest materials -- Geological dating -- The oldest rocks -- The early atmosphere -- The evolving hydrosphere -- Layered Earth -- Probing Earth's interior -- Tectonic Earth -- The molten core -- 'D double-prime' -- Exploring the mantle -- The base of the crust -- Oceanic crust -- Long-lived continents -- Earth's continental rocks -- Continental rifting -- Making mountains -- Tectonic uplift -- Glacial puzzles -- Earthquakes and plate tectonics -- What makes faults slip? -- A case study in volcanism -- Island arc volcanoes -- Earth's greatest eruptions -- First fossils? -- LUCA -- Controversial origins -- Rising oxygen levels -- From simple to complex life -- Rodinia -- Snowball Earth -- The phosphorus effect -- Gondwana and Pangea -- Mysterious Ediacarans -- The first animals -- Secrets of the sponge genome -- The Doushantuo embryos -- Life in the Cambrian seas -- Soft bodies from the Ordovician -- Avalonia -- Ordovician boom and bust -- Living on land -- Oxygen booms and growth spurts -- Four feet on the ground -- The fossils of East Kirkton -- Joggins Fossil Cliffs -- Coal forests and glaciations -- Early Permian life -- The Great Dying -- Triassic survivors -- Rise of the dinosaurs -- Late Triassic life -- Life in Triassic seas -- Mongolian mammals -- Africa's giant dinosaurs -- Australia's polar dinosaurs -- India's journey north -- Evolution of flowering plants -- Sauropod puzzles -- Linking birds and dinosaurs -- Dinosaur eggs and babies -- The end of Mesozoic -- The Cenozoic recovery -- Primate beginnings -- PETM-The Great Warning -- The Great Rift Valley -- Changing climates of the past -- The australopithecine clan -- The real 'Great Flood' -- The Quarternary Ice Age -- Genus Homo -- The first art -- Neanderthal mysteries -- Unexpected cousins -- The Younger Dryas -- Megafloods -- The Holocene rebound -- Domestication of plants and animals -- Disappearing megafauna -- Biodiversity -- Extremophiles -- The Census of Marine Life -- Human overkill -- The carbon dioxide record -- Climate chande and mountain erosion -- Changing sea levels -- Habitats on the move -- Danger from the soil? -- Freshwater challenges -- Does coal have a future? -- Atmospheric pollution -- Ocean hypoxia -- Energy futures --The Athabasca tar sands -- Threat from the skies -- Future sea levels -- Future tectonics -- the fate of thye Earth -- Glossary and Timeline -- Index -- Acknowledgements

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