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How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard's acclaimed geologist. "A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll... Title Page 2 Dedication 5 Contents 6 Prologue: An Invitation 9 1: Chemical Earth 15 2: Physical Earth 34 3: Biological Earth 50 4: Oxygen Earth 71 5: Animal Earth 91 6: Green Earth 110 7: Catastrophic Earth 131 8: Human Earth 149 Acknowledgments 172 Further Reading 174 Index 184 A

Author

Andrew H. Knoll

Publisher

Custom House

Language

EN