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03162aam a22004214i 4500 001 1355ACB2F05411E7964A246697128E48 003 SILO 005 20180103010226 008 170605t20182018nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017025802 020 $a 0231182600 020 $a 9780231182607 035 $a (OCoLC)987659309 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d MIBLS $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a x------ 050 00 $a QE31 $b .P76 2018 082 00 $a 551 $2 23 100 1 $a Prothero, Donald R., $e author. 245 14 $a The story of the Earth in 25 rocks : $b tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them / $c Donald R. Prothero. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a viii, 354 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Volcanic tuff : Vulcan's wrath : the eruption of Vesuvius -- Native copper : the iceman and the island of copper -- Cassiterite : the "isles of tin" and the bronze age -- Angular unconformity : "no vestige of a beginning" : the immensity of geologic time -- Igneous dikes : the "Earth's great heat engine" : the origin of magmas -- Coal : the rock that burns fires the industrial revolution -- Jurassic park : the map that changed the world : William Smith and the rocks of Britain -- Radioactive uranium : the atomic clock : Arthur Holmes and the age of the Earth -- Chondritic meteorites : messengers from space : the origin of the solar system -- Iron-nickel meteorites : the cores of other planets -- Moon rocks : green cheese or anorthosite : the origin of the moon -- The first sediments : early oceans and life? evidence in a grain of sand -- Stromatolites : microbial condos : cyanobacteria and the oldest life -- Banded iron formation : mountains of iron : the Earth's early atmosphere -- Turbidites : archean sediments and submarine landslides -- Diamictites : tropical glaciers and the snowball Earth -- Exotic terranes : paradox in rocks : wandering fossils and traveling landmasses -- Jigsaw-puzzle bedrock : Alfred Wegener and continental drift -- Chalk : the cretaceous seaway and greenhouse planet -- The iridium layer : the death of the dinosaurs -- Lodestones : how paleomagic launched plate tectonics -- Blueschists : the puzzle of subduction zones -- Transform faults : earthquake! the San Andreas Fault -- Messinian evaporites : the mediterranean was a desert -- Glacial erraticts : a poet, a politician, a professor, and a janitor, and the discovery of the ice ages. 650 0 $a Geology $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Geologists. 650 0 $a Earth sciences $v Popular works. 651 0 $a Earth (Planet) $v Popular works. 941 $a 7 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211202013037.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201022010021.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717035002.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190129010440.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006112906.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20180801010559.0 952 $l TVPD862 $d 20180724193538.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1355ACB2F05411E7964A246697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search