Screen LibraryEvolution of Earth and its climate：birth, life and death of Earth
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam Boston |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Developments in earth & environmental sciences, ; 10 |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 576 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780444537577 0444537570 |
| Index Number: | P311 |
| CLC: | P311 |
| Call Number: | P311/S714 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-571) and index. Pt. 1. Earth's birth and evolution mechanisms. Major stages and methodology in the evolution of geological concepts -- Structure and composition of modern Earth -- Origin of Earth, its past and future -- Process of Earth's core separation -- Earth energetics -- Earth's tectonic activity and its nature -- pt. 2. Cause and effect relationships and space-time regularities. Evolution of the crust-formation processes in Earth's history -- Lithospheric plate tectonics in early Proterozoic and Phanerozoic -- Continental drift in Earth's geological history -- Major patterns of economic deposit concentration within the Earth's crust -- pt. 3. Nascence mechanisms and major evolutionary stages of oceans, atmosphere and life on Earth. Hydrosphere : the patterns of its origin and evolution -- Atmosphere : origin and physicochemical aspects of evolution -- Adiabatic theory of the Greenhouse Effect -- Evolution of Earth's global climate -- Origin and major stages of life evolution on Earth. |