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Hodgkinson, Jane H.

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The earth as a cradle for life : = the origin, evolution and future of the environment /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The earth as a cradle for life :/ Frank D. Stacey, Jane H. Hodgkinson, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Australia.
Reminder of title:	the origin, evolution and future of the environment /
Author:	Stacey, F. D.
other author:	Hodgkinson, Jane H.
Published:	[Hackensack,] New Jersey :World Scientific, : [2013],
Description:	xvii, 285 pages :illustrations ;24 cm
[NT 15003449]:	"The age of the earth as an abode fitted for life" (Lord Kelvin, 1899) -- Rotation, tides and the moon -- The variable sun and other astronomical effects -- The magnetic field -- Internal heat and the evolution of the earth -- The oceans -- Planetary atmospheres and the appearance of free oxygen -- Thermal balance, the greenhouse effect, and sea level -- Environmental crises and mass extinctions of species -- Stability of the environment -- Inorganic mineral deposits as products of an evolving environment -- Fossil fuels, buried carbon and photosynthetic oxygen -- Effects of fossil fuel use -- A comparison of human energy use with natural dissipations -- The cradle is rocking -- A summary of salient conclusions.
Subject:	Earth sciences - Textbooks. -
ISBN:	9789814508322

The earth as a cradle for life : = the origin, evolution and future of the environment /
Stacey, F. D.

The earth as a cradle for life :the origin, evolution and future of the environment /Frank D. Stacey, Jane H. Hodgkinson, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Australia. - [Hackensack,] New Jersey :World Scientific,[2013] - xvii, 285 pages :illustrations ;24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The age of the earth as an abode fitted for life" (Lord Kelvin, 1899) -- Rotation, tides and the moon -- The variable sun and other astronomical effects -- The magnetic field -- Internal heat and the evolution of the earth -- The oceans -- Planetary atmospheres and the appearance of free oxygen -- Thermal balance, the greenhouse effect, and sea level -- Environmental crises and mass extinctions of species -- Stability of the environment -- Inorganic mineral deposits as products of an evolving environment -- Fossil fuels, buried carbon and photosynthetic oxygen -- Effects of fossil fuel use -- A comparison of human energy use with natural dissipations -- The cradle is rocking -- A summary of salient conclusions.

ISBN: 9789814508322

LCCN: 2013007925Subjects--Topical Terms:

621891
Earth sciences
--Textbooks.

LC Class. No.: QE26.3 / .S73 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 550

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