| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| 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 |