Planet Earth, Past and Present [E-Book] : Parallels Between Our World and its Celestial Neighbors / by Michael Carroll.
The Earth is not the world it once was, and it is not the world it will always be. This book describes the exciting, complex, and occasionally baffling history of our own planet. Over the course of its 4.5 billion years, Earth has undergone astonishing changes to its surface and atmosphere, at times...
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| Personal Name(s): | Carroll, Michael, author |
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1st edition 2023. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2023
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| Physical Description: |
XIX, 454 pages 152 illustrations, 125 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783031413605 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-031-41360-5 |
| Series Title: |
Popular Astronomy
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- Chapter 1: Beginnings
- Chapter 2: Asteroid belt: the impact of an uneasy relationship during the great solar system
- Chapter 3: Earth=Mercury: Earth as a molten world
- Chapter 4: Earth=Venus: Our planet as a Dante-esque oven
- Chapter 5: Earth=Titan
- Chapter 6: Earth=Mars: the "Snowball" Earth
- Chapter 7: Surrogate Earths: making homes away from home
- Chapter 8: Distant Earths: exoplanets with potential
- Chapter 9: Earth=Venus, part II: Future Earths.