MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02831cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2001060201
003 DLC
005 20080307115442.0
008 011228s2002 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001060201
020 $a0387952586 (acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hger
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQB631$b.M4513 2002
082 00 $a550$221
100 1 $aMeissner, Rolf.
240 10 $aGeschichte der Erde.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe little book of planet Earth /$cRolf Meissner.
260 $aNew York :$bCopernicus,$cc2002.
300 $axiii, 202 p. :$bill., maps ;$c19 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: chapter 1: The Roots of Earth Sciences -- Classical Scientific Thought -- The Copernican Revolution -- From Physics and Philosophy to Geology -- The Age of the Earth -- chapter 2: The Earth in the Context of Our Solar System -- The Origins of the Solar System -- The Elements of the Solar System -- The Planets Circling the Sun -- chapter 3: The Formation of Earth and Moon -- Similarities and Differences -- Exploring the Moon -- chapter 4: The Interior of the Earth and the Role of Seismology -- Seismic Waves -- The Earth's Interior -- chapter 5: Rotation and Shape, Gravity and Tides -- Describing the Earth's Shape -- Tides -- Rotation -- chapter 6: The Earth's Magnetic Field -- Establishing a Physical Concept -- Reversals of the Magnetic Field -- Paleomagnetism -- chapter 7: Atom-Mineral-Rock -- Crystallization -- Minerals in Crust and Mantle -- Rocks -- chapter 8: The Early Ages -- The Archean -- The Proterozoic -- chapter 9: Radioactive Dating -- The Chemistry of Unstable Elements -- Determining the Age -- Applications of Radioactive Dating Techniques -- Carbon Dating -- chapter 10: Plate Tectonics -- Twentieth-Century Research -- Gathering Evidence -- Drifting Plates -- Pangea and Beyond -- chapter 11: The Crust of the Earth -- The Moho -- The Crust -- Hydrocarbons -- Coal -- Other Subsurface-based Resources -- chapter 12: Formation of Mountains and Basins -- Collisions -- Orogeny -- Sediment Basins -- chapter 13: New Discoveries, New Concepts -- Discoveries -- New Seismological Concepts -- chapter 14: The Phanerozoic: -- The Last 600 Million Years -- The Evolution of Life -- The Eras of the Phanerozoic -- chapter 15: Biological Evolution -- A Product of Chance -- Early Life Hypotheses -- Multicellular Life -- Human Evolution and Climate -- epilogue Our Limited Resources -- Nuclear Energy -- Alternative Energy Sources -- Outlook -- Further Reading -- Index.
651 0 $aEarth.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2001060201.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0816/2001060201-d.html