The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate / Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams.
2012
QC884 .Z35 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate / Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams.
Author
Zalasiewicz, J. A.
ISBN
9780199593576 (alk. paper)
0199593574 (alk. paper)
0199593574 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xx, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number
QC884 .Z35 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.609
Summary
Presents a history of climate to reveal that the climatic changes happening hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.
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Williams, Mark, 1965-
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Table of Contents
Primordial climate
Earth as a snowball
Between greenhouse and icehouse
The last greenhouse world
The ice returns
The last of the warmth
Into the icehouse
The glacial world
Birth and death of the Holocene
The anthropocene begins.
Earth as a snowball
Between greenhouse and icehouse
The last greenhouse world
The ice returns
The last of the warmth
Into the icehouse
The glacial world
Birth and death of the Holocene
The anthropocene begins.