The Earth: A Very Short Introduction
작성자
Martin Redfern
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형식
페이퍼백
페이지
160
언어
영어
출판됨
Sep 25, 2003
출판사
Oxford University Press
판
1
ISBN-10
0192803077
ISBN-13
9780192803078
설명
Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves were drifting across the surface of the globe and that oceans were being created and destroyed. Secondly, pictures of the entire planet were returned from space. Suddenly, the Earth began to be viewed as a single entity; a dynamic, interacting whole, controlled by complex processes we scarcely understood.This Introduction explores emerging geological research and explains how new advances in the understanding of plate tectonics, seismology, and satellite imagery have enabled us to begin to see the Earth as it actually is: dynamic and ever changing.