Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters
Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim
Abstract
This book is a scientific, historical, and philosophical narrative for general readers that explores the relationship between humans and the Earth and the geologic principles of time, plate tectonics, and change in life forms. Illustrated with striking historical maps, figures, and pictures, this comprehensive work can be read as a thrilling biography of the Earth itself, including narrative sections on the lives of pioneering geologists; the reality and sublimity of geologic time; the birth, destruction, and rebirth of the planet and its atmosphere over repeated cycles spanning some 4-plus bi ... More
Keywords: geology, history of geology, geologic time, deep time, plate tectonics, evolution, Charles Lyell, biography of Earth, humans and Earth
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9780197502464 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2021 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197502464.001.0001 |
