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The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries
How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life
Langbeschreibung
In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Rare Earth2. In the Beginning3. Moonstruck4. Faint Young Sun5. The Oceans Form6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere7. Planet of the Scum8. Snowball Earth9. Plankton Power10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event12. The Devonian Crises13. The First Forests14. The Pangean Icehouse15. The "Great Dying"16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition21. American Serengeti22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages23. The Death of the Megamammals24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization25. The Future Greenhouse PlanetIndex
Donald R. Prothero is a paleontology and geology researcher, teacher, and author. He is adjunct professor of geological sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His Columbia University Press books include The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (2018), The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them (2019), and The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It (2020).
ISBN-13:
9780231203586
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.12.2024
Seiten:
466
Autor:
Donald R. Prothero
Gewicht:
806 g
Format:
231x160x34 mm
Sprache:
Englisch