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The Young Earth: An introduction to Archaean geology

By E. G. Nisbet (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1987
ISBN
978-0-04-550049-9, 978-94-011-6489-4
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-6489-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13507377 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
402\411
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
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Description

'What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing, are difficult to interpret, dusty, and do not fit well in the neatly ordered contents of a house of learning. Archaean geology, which is the study of the Earth's history in the period from after 9 the end of planetary accretion (4.5-4.4 x 10 years ago) up to the beginning 9 of the Proterozoic (2.5 x 10 years ago) is much the same - a parcel of old stones seemingly impossible to understand. Yet these stones contain the history of our origins: they can tell us a story that is interesting not just to the geologist (for whom this book is primarily written) but instead addresses the human condition in general.

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