Hazen, Robert M., 1948-
New York : Viking, 2012.
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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.
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