
Evolution of Earth and its Climate
Birth, Life and Death of Earth
Description
Key Features
- Challenges current thinking about climate change on the basis of sound geological data
- Helps the reader make informed decisions about Earth-process related problems
- Challenges the reader to critically analyze both theory and data
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Major stages and methodology in the evolution of geological concepts
2. Structure and composition of modern Earth
3. Origin of Earth, its past and future
4. Process of Earth’s core separation
5. Earth energetics
6. Earth's tectonic activity and its nature
7. Evolution of the crust-formation processes in Earth's history
8. Lithospheric plate tectonics in Early Proterozoic and Phanerozoic
9. Continental drift in Earth's geological history
10. Major patterns of economic deposit concentration within Earth's crust
11. Hydrosphere: the patterns of its origin and evolution
12. Atmosphere: origin and physicochemical aspects of evolution
13. Adiabatic theory of the greenhouse effect
14. Evolution of Earth’s global climate
15. Origin and major stages of life evolution on Earth
Product details
- No. of pages: 596
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2010
- Published: October 29, 2010
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444562012
- eBook ISBN: 9780444537584
About the Authors
O.G. Sorokhtin
Affiliations and Expertise
G.V. Chilingarian
Affiliations and Expertise
N.O. Sorokhtin
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