Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks - Hardcover

McNamara, Ken

 
9781789147186: Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1789147182 ISBN 13: 9781789147186
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A geological saga that digs deep, revealing how even the most ordinary rocks can be stepping stones to the hidden history of our planet.
 
Unearthing the Underworld reveals the hidden world of rocks—the keepers of secrets of past environments, changing climates, and the pulse of life over billions of years. Even the most seemingly ordinary stone can tell us much about the history of this planet, opening vistas of ancient worlds of ice, raging floods, strange unbreathable atmospheres, and prehistoric worlds teeming with life. Remarkably, many types of rocks owe their existence to living organisms—from the remains of bodies of dead animals to rocks formed from rotting ancient forests, or even created by the activity of fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Anything but dull and uninteresting, rocks are intriguing portals that illuminate the secret underworld upon which we live.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ken McNamara is an emeritus fellow of Downing College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books on paleontology and evolution, including Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones: The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils, also published by Reaktion Books.

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789147182
ISBN 13 
9781789147186
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
295
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