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Jackson, Tom, 1972- author.

Earth sciences : an illustrated history of planetary science / Tom Jackson.

New York : Shelter Harbor Press, [2019]

©2019

144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm + 1 fold-out timeline.

"Through 100 pivotal milestones, this gorgeous reference book and timeline show how our planet has evolved from a disk of dust left behind by a young Sun. The accessible text describes the Earth's ever-changing layers and what researchers have learned about the past through fossils and about the future in the search for habitable exoplanets. At a time when human life is impacting the Earth at a noticeable rate."--Provided by publisher.

Ponderables : 100 breakthroughs that changed history

Ponderables (Series)

Earth sciences -- Juvenile literature.

Earth sciences -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Discoveries in science -- Juvenile literature.

Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile literature.

Earth scientists -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Scientists -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Earth (Planet) -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Informational works.

Illustrated works.

"Includes: foldout timeline with over 1,000 milestone facts"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 140) and index.

Seasons and cycles -- Four elements -- Plato's catastrophe -- Aristotle's Meteorologica -- Voyage of Pytheas -- On stones -- The circumference of the earth -- Geographica by Strabo -- The end of the world -- Pliny's natural history -- Source of rain -- Maps of the world -- Cause of the tides -- Voyages to America -- Liquid rock -- Making dry land -- Rainbow science-- Treasure voyages -- Magnetic navigation -- Weather measurements -- Voyage of Columbus -- Circumnavigation -- The nature of metals -- The submarine -- Air pressure -- Weather reports -- Rock strata -- Temperature -- The winds -- The shape of earth -- Geological maps -- Earthquakes -- Why ice floats -- Igneous rocks -- Age of the earth -- A theory of earth -- Neptunism -- Extinction -- Classifying clouds -- Wind speeds and storms -- Fossil records -- Climatology -- Weather maps -- Dinosaur -- Principles of geology -- Ice ages -- Weather fronts -- Geological time scale -- Manual of mineralogy -- Continental shelf and beyond -- Ocean currents -- Human relatives -- Weather forecast -- Exploring altitude -- Hurricane -- Challenger expedition -- USGS -- Cumulonimbus -- The Krakatoa eruption -- Mountain building -- El Niʹno -- Greenhouse effect -- Exploring Antarctica -- Weather balloons -- Earth's heat -- The Moho -- The Cambrian explosion -- Radiometric dating -- Continental drift -- Metamorphic rock -- Dendrochronology -- The Richter scale -- Earth's iron core -- Classifying minerals -- Weather radar -- Ediacara: a lost form of life -- Microfossils -- Mid-Atlantic Ridge -- Climate modeling -- Weather satellite -- Plate tectonics -- Marianas Trench -- Meteors -- Earth's magnetic field flips -- The hotspot -- The formation of earth -- NOAA -- Superdeep boreholes -- Tornadoes -- Hydrothermal vents -- Mass extinctions -- Lahar -- Ozone hole -- Snowball earth -- The Argo Project -- Making the moon -- Tsunami -- Source of earth's water -- Ocean cleanup -- Planetary science.

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