| Titre : | Earth : evolution of a habitable word |
| Auteurs : | J. I. Lunine |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-521-64423-5 |
| Format : | 1 vol. (XIX-319 p.) / ill. / 28 cm |
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| Index. décimale : | 525 (La Terre (géographie astronomique)) |
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| Mots-clés: | Sciences de l'environnement Sciences de la Terre Environmental sciences Planète Terre) |
| Note de contenu : |
Sommaire: * Pt. 1. The Astronomical Planet: Earth's Place in the Cosmos. • 1. An Introductory Tour of Earth's Cosmic Neighborhood. • 2. Largest and Smallest Scales. • 3. Forces and Energy. • 4. Fusion, Fission, Sunlight, and Element Formation * Pt. 2. The Measurable Planet: Tools to Discern the History of Earth and the Planets. 5. Determination of Cosmic and Terrestrial Ages. • 6. Other Uses of Isotopes for Earth History. • 7. Relative Age Dating of Cosmic and Terrestrial Events: The Cratering Record. • 8. Relative Age Dating of Terrestrial Events: Geologic Layering and Geologic Time. 9. Plate Tectonics: An Introduction to the Process. * Pt. 3. The Historical Planet: Earth and Solar System Through Time. • 10. Formation of the Solar System. • 11. The Hadean Earth. • 12. The Archean Eon and the Origin of Life: I. Properties of and Sites for Life. • 13. The Archean Eon and the Origin of Life: II. Mechanisms. • 14. The First Greenhouse Crisis: The Faint Early Sun. • 15. Climate Histories of Mars and Venus, and the Habitability of Planets. • 16. Earth in Transition: From the Archean to the Proterozoic. • 17. The Oxygen Revolution. • 18. The Phanerozoic: Flowering and Extinction of Complex Life. • 19. Climate Change Across the Phanerozoic. • 20. Toward the Age of Humankind. * Pt. 4. The Once and Future Planet. • 21. Climate Change Over the Past 100,000 Years. • 22. Human-Induced Global Warming. • 23. Limited Resources: The Human Dilemma. • 24. Coda: The Once and Future Earth. |
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