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Earth System History
This classic textbook is now in its fourth edition and Steven Stanley has teamed up with John Luczaj, an award winning field geologist.Written from a truly integrated earth systems perspective this updated edition includes new coverage on mass extinction, the hot topic of climate change and Proterozoic history.There is a wide range of interactive studying and teaching tools available with this text, because of LaunchPad access.Earth System History is available with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive ebook with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. See 'Instructor Resources' and 'Student Resources' for further information.
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History of Planet Earth
This incredible poster tells the history of our planet through a timeline of geological ages.Details on how the earth has changed over time are also given, with descriptions of the four main geological periods (Precambrian, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic) and the evolution of plants and animals.Creatures and living things are divided into the categories: eubacteria; cyanobacteria; archea; eukaryotes; fungi; invertebrates; plants; chordates; mammals.The development of each category is illustrated by an annotated strip of colour, changing thickness to indicated dominance.
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Earth History and Palaeogeography
Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the evolution of the Earth's biota.These new and very detailed maps provide a complete and integrated Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography.They illustrate the development of all the major mountain-building orogenies.Old lands, seas, ice caps, volcanic regions, reefs, and coal beds are highlighted on the maps, as well as faunal and floral provinces.Many other original diagrams show sections from the Earth's core, through the mantle, and up to the lithosphere, and how Large Igneous Provinces are generated, helping to understand how plates have appeared, moved, and vanished through time.Supplementary resources are available online, making this an invaluable reference for researchers, graduate students, professional geoscientists and anyone interested in the geological history of the Earth.
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Sun, Moon and Earth
How many days are there between full moons - think you know? Is there an ancient key to the calendar hidden in stone circles? What is the magical secret of the Sun-Moon-Earth system? If you have ever wondered about eclipses, tides or the seasons, this amazing little book by acknowledged time-lord Robin Heath will quickly introduce you to the astonishing beauty of the primary cycles around this planet. Advanced wizarding at its best! “Timeless” RESURGENCE. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.
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Could our sun swallow the Earth?
No, our sun could not swallow the Earth. The sun is a massive ball of hot gas, but it is not large enough to engulf the Earth. The sun's outer layers will expand as it ages, eventually reaching the orbit of the Earth, but it will not actually swallow the Earth. Instead, the Earth will be engulfed by the sun's outer layers and vaporized as the sun expands into a red giant.
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How does the sun irradiate the Earth?
The sun irradiates the Earth by emitting electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared radiation. This radiation travels through space and reaches the Earth's atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere then absorbs some of this radiation and scatters the rest, allowing only a portion of it to reach the Earth's surface. This energy from the sun is essential for life on Earth as it provides warmth, light, and fuels various processes such as photosynthesis.
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How does the sun warm the earth?
The sun warms the Earth through a process called radiation. The sun emits energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and infrared radiation. When this energy reaches the Earth's atmosphere, some of it is absorbed and warms the air. The rest of the energy reaches the Earth's surface, where it is absorbed and warms the land and water. This process of energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's surface is what ultimately warms the planet.
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Can the Earth collide with the Sun?
No, the Earth cannot collide with the Sun. The Earth and the Sun are in a stable orbit around each other due to the force of gravity. The Earth orbits the Sun at a distance of about 93 million miles, and it is unlikely for the Earth's orbit to change in such a way that it would collide with the Sun. Additionally, the Sun's immense gravitational pull would prevent the Earth from getting too close.
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Expecting the Earth : Life|Culture|Biosemiotics
The age of gene-centrism and mechanism is slowly passing.In its place, the biological sciences increasingly recognise that life isn't simply a genetically determined programme but is centrally a matter of information and communication systems nested in larger communicative systems.The latter include both internal and external, and natural and cultural, environments.But 'information' is an under-unanalysed term in relation to living systems.Accordingly, a new interdiscipline, biosemiotics, has grown up to study the ontology of sign relations in biological, aesthetic and technological ecologies.From the Greek bios for life and semeion for sign, biosemiotics is the study of these intertwined natural and cultural sign systems of the living.Expecting the Earth draws on the semiotic philosophy of the American scientist and logician Charles Sanders Peirce, the semiotic ethology of Jakob von Uexkull's Umwelt Theory, Gregory Bateson's cybernetic ecology of mind, Jesper Hoffmeyer's development of biosemiotics, and briefly upon philosophical precursors such as Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Gilbert Simondon, as well as the growth of ecological developmental biology more widely. In this book, Wendy Wheeler formulates a history and theory of biosemiotic and proto-biosemiotic thinking in order to open up new possibilities of contemporary social, philosophical, aesthetic and technological engagement.This is essential reading for those interested in these groundbreaking new developments, and is relevant to the environmental humanities, social ecology and the life sciences more generally.
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The Earth : An Intimate History
The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today.This book will change the way you see the world – permanently. The face of the earth, criss-crossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed constantly over billions of years.Its shape records a remote past of earthquakes, volcanos and continental drift, and the ongoing subtle shifts that bring our planet alive. Richard Fortey introduces us to the earth’s distinct character, revealing the life that it leads when humans aren’t watching.He follows the continual movement of seabeds, valleys, mountain ranges and ice caps and shows how everything – our culture, natural history, even the formation of our cities – has its roots in geology.In Richard Fortey’s hands, geology becomes vital and exhilarating and unmistakably informs our lives in the most intimate way.
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Beach Garden Patio Sun Umbrella Holder Parasol Ground Earth Anchor Spike Stand
Specifications: This product is mainly used for sun umbrella, beach umbrella, umbrella racks base purposes. This is the easiest way to set up your umbrella in the beach sand or camping or garden. This is actually work and keep your beach umbrella from blowing away. Drill into sand or soft ground by turning the handles. Item Name: Umbrella Stand Material: Plastic Quantity: 1Pc Features: Spiral Type, Durable, Easy to Use Size: 3.5cm x 39cm/1.38 x 15.35 (Approx.) Notes: Due to the light and screen setting difference, the item's color may be slightly different from the pictures. Please allow slight dimension difference due to different manual measurement. Package Included: 1 x Umbrella Stand
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The Earth Transformed : An Untold History
THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times------From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilisations across time. When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time.In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world’s leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history – and not just of humankind.Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present.In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history.All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming. Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind’s continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world. -----'This is epic, gripping, original history that leaps off the page' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland'All Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it.Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event' Tom HollandA 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESMAN * THE TIMES * THE WEEK * WATERSTONES * BLACKWELL'S
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When will the sun eat the earth?
The sun will not "eat" the earth in the literal sense. However, in about 5 billion years, the sun will enter the red giant phase of its life cycle. During this phase, it will expand and engulf the inner planets, including the earth. This event will mark the end of the earth's existence as we know it.
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How does the Earth orbit the sun?
The Earth orbits the sun in an elliptical path, with the sun at one of the foci of the ellipse. This means that the Earth's distance from the sun varies slightly throughout the year. The Earth's orbit is also slightly tilted, so it doesn't orbit the sun in a perfect circle, but rather on a slightly tilted plane. It takes the Earth approximately 365.25 days to complete one orbit around the sun, which is why we have a leap year every four years to account for the extra quarter day.
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Does the sun move around the earth?
No, the sun does not move around the earth. The earth revolves around the sun in a nearly circular orbit, and this movement is what causes the apparent motion of the sun across the sky. This phenomenon is known as the heliocentric model, which was first proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century and later confirmed by observations and calculations made by astronomers. The heliocentric model is widely accepted in modern astronomy and physics.
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Why does the Earth orbit the Sun elliptically?
The Earth orbits the Sun elliptically because of the gravitational pull between the two bodies. This gravitational force causes the Earth to follow an elliptical path rather than a perfect circle. The shape of the orbit is influenced by the gravitational forces of other celestial bodies in the solar system, as well as the conservation of angular momentum. The elliptical orbit allows the Earth to maintain a relatively stable distance from the Sun, resulting in the changing seasons and climate on our planet.
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