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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2003-03-18
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780609609736
- Book Title
- Snowball Earth : the Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Science
- Topic
- Earth Sciences / Geology, Global Warming & Climate Change, Earth Sciences / General, Life Sciences / Biology
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman's quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound that it is shaking the world of earth sciences to its core. In lyrical prose that brings each remote and alluring locale vividly to life, Walker takes us on a thrilling natural history expedition to witness firsthand the supporting evidence Hoffman has pieced together. That evidence, he argues, shows that 700 million years ago the Earth did indeed freeze over completely, becoming a giant "snowball," in the worst climatic catastrophe in history. Even more startling is his assertion that, instead of ending life on Earth, this global deep freeze was the trigger for the Cambrian Explosion, the hitherto unexplained moment in geological time when a glorious profusion of complex life forms first emerged from the primordial ooze. In a story full of intellectual intrigue, we follow the irascible but brilliant Hoffman and a supporting cast of intrepid geologists as they scour the planet, uncovering clue after surprising clue. We travel to a primeval lagoon at Shark Bay in western Australia, where dolphins cavort with swimmers every morning at seven and "living rocks" sprout out of the water like broccoli heads; to the desolate and forbidding ice fields of a tiny Arctic archipelago seven hundred miles north of Norway; to the surprising fossil beds that decorate Newfoundland's foggy and windswept coastli≠and on to the superheated salt pans of California's Death Valley. Through the contours of these rich and varied landscapes Walker teaches us to read the traces of geological time with expert eyes, and we marvel at the stunning feats of resilience and renewal our remarkable planet is capable of. Snowball Earth is science writing at its most gripping and enlightening.
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0609609734
ISBN-13
9780609609736
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2329313
Product Key Features
Book Title
Snowball Earth : the Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Geology, Global Warming & Climate Change, Earth Sciences / General, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Qe507.W35 2003
Copyright Date
2003
Lccn
2002-011348
Dewey Decimal
551.6/09/012
Dewey Edition
21
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