Snowball Earth
by Gabrielle Walker | Science | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1400051258 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1400051258 Global Overview for this book
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IN a story full of intellectual intrigue, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker follows the irascible but brilliant scientist Pal Hoffman and a supporting cast of intrepid geologists on a quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound that it is shaking the world of earth sciences to its core. Witness firsthand the supporting evidence Hoffman has pieced together to prove that 700 million years ago, Earth froze completely over, becoming a giant “snowball,” the worst climatic catastrophe in history. This global deep freeze may have triggered the Cambrian Explosion, the hitherto unexplained moment in geological time when a glorious profusion of complex life forms first emerged from the primordial ooze.
Join this global natural history expedition through the contours of rich and varied landscape, from the desolate ice fields of a tiny Arctic archipelago to the superheated saltpans fo California’s Death Valley. Learn to read the traces of geological time with expert eyes.
IN a story full of intellectual intrigue, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker follows the irascible but brilliant scientist Pal Hoffman and a supporting cast of intrepid geologists on a quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound that it is shaking the world of earth sciences to its core. Witness firsthand the supporting evidence Hoffman has pieced together to prove that 700 million years ago, Earth froze completely over, becoming a giant “snowball,” the worst climatic catastrophe in history. This global deep freeze may have triggered the Cambrian Explosion, the hitherto unexplained moment in geological time when a glorious profusion of complex life forms first emerged from the primordial ooze.
Join this global natural history expedition through the contours of rich and varied landscape, from the desolate ice fields of a tiny Arctic archipelago to the superheated saltpans fo California’s Death Valley. Learn to read the traces of geological time with expert eyes.
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