New Views on an Old Planet
2nd Edition
£66.99
- Author: Tjeerd H. van Andel, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: November 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521447553
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In this 1994 revised edition of his award-winning book on the Earth's history, Professor van Andel updates and expands his earlier text, drawing on a wealth of new knowledge that has become available in the last decade. This book examines the major changes in the Earth's history - the evolution of the solid Earth, the changing oceans and atmospheres and the progression of life - to render a historical account of the Earth's evolution. Much knowledge was gained in the previous decade, and while little material has been deleted, this new edition has grown to cover the key topics, including a chapter on how we can improve our grasp on geological time. Mindful of the current interest in global change, new sections describe the green-house effect and address its possible future ramifications. In prose that is both concise and compelling, New Views on an Old Planet: A History of Global Change makes Earth history appealing to the general reader. It will serve as an excellent text for introductory courses in the earth and environmental sciences.
Read more- First edition won the 1986 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Physical Sciences Award of the Association of American Publishers
- It is an intelligent and critical book designed for a general audience
- It ties concern about global change to earth history
Reviews & endorsements
' a chatty account of Earth evolution … It deserves to become a classic.' New Scientist
See more reviews'This book is certainly enjoyable to read and it covers the subject at the right pace and overall to exactly the depth needed for the reader for whom it is written … It should be a necessity for any introductory earth science course. I thoroughly recommend it.' Geoscientist
Review from 1st edition 'Professor van Andel writes in a very clear concise style, conveying ideas by use of clever and original analogies, frequently injected with a little humour whenever things start to become a bit too abstruse.' Modern Geology
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×Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: November 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521447553
- length: 458 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.79kg
- contains: 188 b/w illus. 7 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Foundations:
1. Reading the record of the rocks
2. Perspective on time
Part II. Climate Past and Present: The Ice Age:
3. Climate and climate change
4. Portrait of an ice age
5. Explaining glaciations
Part III. Drifting Continents, Rising Mountains:
6. Continental drift and plate tectonics
7. Continental breakup and continental drift
8. Converging plates and colliding continents
Part IV. Changing Oceans, Changing Climates:
9. The sea comes in, the sea goes out
10. Other times and other oceans
11. Onward to the ice age
12. A matter of rhythm
Part V. The Four-Billion-Year Childhood:
13. Birth of the solid earth
14. Water for the sea, air for the atmosphere
15. The dawn of life
Part VI. Life, Time and Change:
16. Beyond Darwin
17. Bones of our ancestors
18. Evolution and environment
19. Crises and catastrophes.
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