Introduction -- The voyage of HMS Challenger -- Coral reefs : rainforests of the sea -- Probing the seafloor -- Nothing beats a map -- Do seafloors spread and continents drift? -- Continental drift to plate tectonics -- Hotspots in the mantle -- When the Mediterranean dried up -- The glacial theory -- The astronomical pacemaker -- Astrochronology -- Crater of doom -- The hot, deep biosphere -- The seventh continent -- Eocene doomsday -- Human evolution -- Looking back and ahead.
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"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history"-- Provided by publisher.
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