Description: Further DetailsTitle: Reading the RocksCondition: NewSubtitle: The Autobiography of the EarthISBN-10: 0465006841EAN: 9780465006847ISBN: 9780465006847Publisher: Basic BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/31/2006Description: To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright Scholar Marcia Bjornerud takes the reader along on an eye-opening tour of Deep Time, explaining in elegant prose what we see and feel beneath our feet. Both scientist and storyteller, Bjornerud uses anecdotes and metaphors to remind us that our home is a living thing with lessons to teach. Containing a glossary and detailed timescale, as well as vivid descriptions and historic accounts, Reading the Rocks is literally a history of the world, for all friends of the Earth.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 202mmItem Length: 134mmItem Width: 16mmItem Weight: 284gAuthor: Marcia BjornerudGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Reading the Rocks
Title: Reading the Rocks
Subtitle: The Autobiography of the Earth
ISBN-10: 0465006841
EAN: 9780465006847
ISBN: 9780465006847
Release Date: 10/31/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Reading the Rocks : the Autobiography Of the Earth
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Topic: Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, Earth Sciences / Geology
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.8 in
Genre: Social Science, Science
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Marcia Bjornerud
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Perfect
