The planet in a pebble : a journey into Earth's deep history / Jan Zalasiewicz.

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"Every pebble has many stories to tell. Its particular atoms, its crystals, its minerals, its grains, its textures, its strata, its tiny fossils bear evidence to a history that stretches back billions of years."--From Book flap.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zalasiewicz, J. A.
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Historical geology.
Pebbles.
Petrology.
Earth (Planet) > History.
Physical Description:xiv, 234 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Stardust
  • From the depths of the earth
  • Distant lands
  • To the rendezvous
  • The sea
  • Ghosts observed
  • Ghosts in absentia
  • Where on earth?
  • Gold!
  • The oil window
  • Making mountains
  • Breaking the surface
  • Futures.