Supercontinent

Author: Ted Nield
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0674026594
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet

To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. Search and download computer ebooks Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet for free.
The Palaeoproterozoic era (2500-1600 Ma) is a critical period of Earth history, with dynamic evolution from the deep planetary interior to its surface environment. Several lines of geological evidence suggest the existence of at least one pre-Rodinia supercontinent, named Nuna or Columbia, which formed near the end of Palaeoproterozoic time. Prior to this assembly, there may have been an older supercontinent (Kenorland) or perhaps only independently drifting supercratons. The tectonic records of amalgamation and dispersal of these ancient landmasses provide a framework that links processes of the deep Earth with those of its fluid envelope. The sixteen papers in this volume present reviews and new analytical data that span the geological record of Palaeoproterozoic Earth. The volume is useful as a reference book for students and professional geoscientists interested in this important period of global evolution. isbn13: 9781862392830. Download Supercontinent computer ebooks
The Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion years old. This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cycle of all-one so vast that our species will probably be extinct long before the current one ends in about 250 million years. And yet this cycle, the grandest pattern in Nature, may well be the fundamental reason our species-or any complex life at all-exists. This book explores the Supercontinent Cycle from scientists' earliest inkling of the phenomenon to the geological discoveries of today-and from the most recent fusing of all of Earth's landmasses, Pangaea, on which dinosaurs evolved,

Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup

Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup: BF Windley, Masaru Yoshida, S. Dasgupta

Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, ISBN-13: 9780674032453, ISBN-10: 0674032454

author ted nield format paperback language english publication year 01 09 2008 publishedon 2008 09 01 publisher granta books subject the world ideas culture general interest subject 2 popular science book details title supercontinent item condition new author ted nield isbn 10 1847080413 publisher granta books isbn 13 9781847080417 published on 2008 09 01 sku nu ber 00280876 binding paperback language english edition list price description thanks for looking at our listing at cmedia group we try

Looks at the Supercontinent Cycle; explores the history of its discovery; and includes discussion of Pangaea, the fusing of all of Earth's landmasses, and the lesser-known Rodinia, which existed approximately one thousand million years ago.

Supercontinent Free

The Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion years old. This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cycle of all-one so vast that our species will probably be extinct long before the current one ends in about 250 million years. And yet this cycle, the grandest pattern in Nature, may well be the fundamental reason our species-or any complex life at all-exists
he Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion years old. This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cycle of all-one so vast that our species will probably be extinct long before the current one ends in about 250 million years. And yet this cycle, the grandest pattern in Nature, may well be the fundamental reason our species-or any complex life at all-exists. This book explores the Supercontinent Cycle from scientists' earliest inkling of the phenomenon to the geological discoveries of today-and from the most recent fusing of all of Earth's landmasses, Pangaea, on which dinosaurs evolved,