The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
de Zalasiewicz, Jan
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- 0199214972
- ISBN 13
- 9780199214976
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Kraków, Poland
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Sobre este artículo
Oxford University Press, 2009 8vo (22.5 cm), XVI, 251 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "The Earth After Us takes this novel approach to show how geologists unravel the information in the rocks. As the alien scientists start investigating the strata, what story will they tell of us? What kind of fossils will humans leave behind? What will happen to cities, cars, and plastic cups? How thick a layer will the 'human stratum' be? And will it be obvious which species dominated the planet? It reveals a story of an environmental crisis similar in scale to even earlier mass extinction events, yet puzzlingly different: a crisis where extinctions were accompanied by a bizarre global merry-go-round of organisms and by sharp perturbations of climate.The trail leads finally to the bones of the inhabitants of petrified cities that have lain deep underground for many millions of years. As thought-provoking as it is engaging, this book simultaneously explains both the geological mechanisms that shape our planet, and also offers a perspective on humanity and its actions that may prove to be more objective than any other. For our final legacy, Zalasiewicz argues, will provide the ultimate verdict on our species and on our relationship to planet Earth." (from the publisher's synopsis)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-246) and index.
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- Librería
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 007274
- Título
- The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
- Autor
- Zalasiewicz, Jan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0199214972
- ISBN 13
- 9780199214976
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Oxford And New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
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Sobre el vendedor
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Kraków
Sobre Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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