Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: Jackson, Tom, 1972- author. Title: Earth sciences : an illustrated history of planetary science / Tom Jackson. Publisher, Date: New York : Shelter Harbor Press, [2019] ©2019 Description: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm + 1 fold-out timeline. Summary: "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. Series: Ponderables : 100 breakthroughs that changed history Ponderables (Series) Subjects: 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. Genre: Informational works. Illustrated works. Notes: "Includes: foldout timeline with over 1,000 milestone facts"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (page 140) and index. Contents: 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. ISBN: 9781627951425 1627951423 Other Number: 1124922146 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 826499 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: j 500 Jackson Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1