Volcanoes a Very Short Introduction Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 26 November 2020

Throughout our planet's history volcanoes have played a large role in shaping landscapes, the climate, and biological evolution. This book explains the fundamental mechanisms of volcanism, considering why volcanoes are

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 45,9 Mb
• Release Date : 26 November 2020

Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoundly important feature of Earth, and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 23 January 2024

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this Very Short Introduction Bill McGuire takes a fresh look at our sometimes perilous planet, and evaluates the causes and consequences of what

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 22,8 Mb
• Release Date : 26 March 2015

The 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 36,9 Mb
• Release Date : 26 January 2006

Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 November 2010

This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 June 2003

For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 24 September 2015

Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major rivers, affect

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 39,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2016

Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 28 June 2018

Ranging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in one way or another, and also much