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The Earth
- Author
- Martin Redfern
- Narrator
- Diane Cardea
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 22 June 2021
- Run Time
- 4 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This Introduction explores emerging geological research and explains how new advances in the understanding of plate tectonics, seismology, and satellite imagery have enabled us to begin to see the Earth as it actually is: dynamic and ever changing.
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- Author
- Martin Redfern
- Narrator
- Diane Cardea
- Duration
- 4 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9781666141740
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Applied ecology, Ecological science, the Biosphere
Synopsis
Around thirty years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves were drifting across the surface of the globe and that oceans were being created and destroyed. Secondly, pictures of the entire planet were returned from space. Suddenly, the Earth began to be viewed as a single entity; a dynamic, interacting whole, controlled by complex processes we scarcely understood.This Introduction explores emerging geological research and explains how new advances in the understanding of plate tectonics, seismology, and satellite imagery have enabled us to begin to see the Earth as it actually is: dynamic and ever changing.
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