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Part of the series The California world history library 20;California world history library 20.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.
• A List of illustrations — Preface — Introduction : The turquoise ring of the Emperor Jahangir — 1. The colored earth — 2. Turquoise, trade, and empire in early modern Eurasia — 3. The turquoise of Islam — 4. Stone from the East — 5. The other side of the world — Epilogue : Indian stone.

Subjects:

• Turquoise — History.
• Mineral industries — History.
• Mines and mineral resources — History.
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-153) and index.
• The paleomagnetism of sediments and sedimentary rocks: importance and reliability — The magnetization mechanism of sediments and sedimentary rocks: depositional remanent magnetization — Post-depositional remanent magnetization — Inclination shallowing in sedimentary rocks: evidence, mechanism and cause — How to detect and correct a compaction-shallowed inclination — Post-depositional diagenesis and chemical remanent magnetization — Tectonic strain effects on remanence: rotation of remanence and remagnetization in orogenic belts — Magnetization of sediments and the environment — The magnetization of sedimentary rocks: processes and their interpretation — Glossary of paleomagnetic and rock magnetic acronyms.

Subjects:

• Paleomagnetism.
• Sediments (Geology)

Requested by Knutson, P

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• Includes index.
• Birth : the formation of Earth — The Big Thwack : the formation of the moon — Black Earth : the first basalt crust — Blue Earth : the formation of the oceans — Gray Earth : the first granite crust — Living Earth : the origins of life — Red Earth : photosynthesis and the Great Oxidation Event — The boring billion : the mineral revolution — White Earth : the snowball-hothouse cycle — Green Earth : the rise of the terrestrial biosphere — The future : scenarios of a changing planet.
• In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere–of rocks and living matter–has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.

Subjects:

• Earth (Planet)

Requested by Johnson, J