The Planet in a Pebble

The Planet in a Pebble
Author: Jan Zalasiewicz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0199645698

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"Every pebble has many stories to tell. Its particular atoms, its crystals, its minerals, its grains, its textures, its strata, its tiny fossils bear evidence to a history that stretches back billions of years."--Book flap.


The Planet in a Pebble
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Jan Zalasiewicz
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Every pebble has many stories to tell. Its particular atoms, its crystals, its minerals, its grains, its textures, its strata, its tiny fossils bear evidence t
Pebble in the Sky
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Isaac Asimov
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-27 - Publisher: Macmillan

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One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empi
Earth and Other Planets
Language: en
Pages: 25
Authors: Ellen Labrecque
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08 - Publisher: Pebble

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"You are here: Universe - Milky Way Galaxy - Solar System - Third Planet from the Sun, Earth. Our place in the universe determines what we see in the night sky
The Earth After Us
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Jan Zalasiewicz
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This engaging and th
The Goldilocks Planet
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Jan Zalasiewicz
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Presents a history of climate to reveal that the climatic changes happening hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.