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100 1  Knoll, Andrew H.,|eauthor. 
245 12 A brief history of Earth :|bfour billion years in eight 
       chapters|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cAndrew H. Knoll.
250    Unabridged. 
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511 0  Read by Tom Parks. 
520    Acclaimed Harvard geologist Andrew Knoll delivers a 
       sweeping and definitive new narrative history of Earth, 
       charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion year history 
       and placing our current environmental crisis in deep 
       context. The story of our planetary home and the organisms
       spread across its surface is far grander and more 
       spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with 
       enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. More 
       than four billion years ago, a small planet accreted out 
       of rocky debris circling a modest young star. In its early
       years, Earth lived on the edge of cataclysm, frequently 
       bombarded with comets and meteors, while roiling magma 
       oceans covered the surface and toxic gases choked the 
       atmosphere. With time, however, continents formed, only to
       be ripped apart and later collide, throwing up spectacular
       mountain ranges, most of which have been lost to time. 
       Volcanoes a million times larger than anything ever 
       witnessed by humans. Cycles of global glaciation. Dramatic
       change and violent extremes. Countless lost worlds we are 
       only beginning to piece together. Somehow on this dynamic 
       stage, life established a foothold and eventually 
       transformed our planet's surface, paving the way for 
       trilobites, dinosaurs, and a species that can speak, 
       reflect, fashion tools and, in the end, change the world 
       again. Earth's story helps us to understand how the 
       mountains, oceans, trees, and animals around us came to be,
       as well as gold, diamonds, coal, oil, and the very air we 
       breathe. And in so doing, it provides the context needed 
       to understand how human activities are transforming the 
       world in the twenty-first century. For most of its history,
       our home was inhospitable to humans, and indeed, among the
       enduring lessons of Andrew Knoll's essential and timely 
       book, is a recognition of how fleeting and fragile our 
       present moment is. Placing twenty-first-century climate 
       change in the context of the vast history of our home, A 
       Brief History of Earth is a gripping and essential look at
       where we've been and where we're going. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Biology. 
650  0 Geology. 
650  0 Geology, Stratigraphic. 
650  0 Historical geology. 
651  0 Earth (Planet) 
700 1  Parks, Tom,|d1965-|enarrator. 
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