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The earth as a cradle for life [electronic resource] / Frank D. Stacey (CSIRO, Australia) & Jane H. Hodgkinson (CSIRO, Australia).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789814508346
  • 9814508349
  • 1299713726
  • 9781299713727
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Earth as a cradle for life.DDC classification:
  • 550 23
LOC classification:
  • QE26.3 .S73 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"The age of the earth as an abode fitted for life" (Lord Kelvin, 1899) -- Rotation, tides and the moon -- The variable sun and other astronomical effects -- The magnetic field -- Internal heat and the evolution of the earth -- The oceans -- Planetary atmospheres and the appearance of free oxygen -- Thermal balance, the greenhouse effect, and sea level -- Environmental crises and mass extinctions of species -- Stability of the environment -- Inorganic mineral deposits as products of an evolving environment -- Fossil fuels, buried carbon and photosynthetic oxygen -- Effects of fossil fuel use -- A comparison of human energy use with natural dissipations -- The cradle is rocking -- A summary of salient conclusions.
Summary: This book takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, through to human perturbations of the modern world and their implications for life in the future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The age of the earth as an abode fitted for life" (Lord Kelvin, 1899) -- Rotation, tides and the moon -- The variable sun and other astronomical effects -- The magnetic field -- Internal heat and the evolution of the earth -- The oceans -- Planetary atmospheres and the appearance of free oxygen -- Thermal balance, the greenhouse effect, and sea level -- Environmental crises and mass extinctions of species -- Stability of the environment -- Inorganic mineral deposits as products of an evolving environment -- Fossil fuels, buried carbon and photosynthetic oxygen -- Effects of fossil fuel use -- A comparison of human energy use with natural dissipations -- The cradle is rocking -- A summary of salient conclusions.

Print version record.

This book takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, through to human perturbations of the modern world and their implications for life in the future.

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