The Goldilocks Planet: The Four Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate
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Description
n this remarkable new work, Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams demonstrate how the Earth's climate has continuously altered over its 4.5 billion-year history. The story can be read from clues preserved in the Earth's strata - the evidence is abundant, though always incomplete, and also often baffling, puzzling, infuriating, tantalizing, seemingly contradictory. Geologists, though, are becoming ever more ingenious at interrogating this evidence, and the story of the Earth's climate is now being reconstructed in ever-greater detail - maybe even providing us with clues to the future of contemporary climate change.
ISBN
978-0-19-959357-6
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Disciplines
History | Physical Sciences and Mathematics