| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Geological timeline; Prologue; 1 Perspective; 2 100 Million Years AD; 3 The Strata Machine; 4 Tectonic Escalator; 5 High Water, Low Water; 6 Dynasties; 7 Echoes; 8 Traces; 9 Body of Evidence; 10 Meeting the People; Further Reading; Index. |
| Summary |
If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This engaging and thought-provoking account looks at what our species will leave behind, buried deep in the rock strata, and provides us with a warning of our devastating environmental impact. - ;Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader one hundred million years into the future, long after the human race became extinct, to explore what will remain of humanity's brief but dramatic sojourn on planet Earth. He tells how geologists in the far future - perhap. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biogeomorphology.
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Biogeomorphology. |
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Historical geology.
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Historical geology. |
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Paleoanthropology.
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Paleoanthropology. |
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Extinction (Biology)
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Extinction (Biology) |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freedman, Kim.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zalasiewicz, J.A. Earth after us. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2008277323 |
| ISBN |
0191550493 (electronic book) |
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9780191550492 (electronic book) |
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0199214972 (Cloth) |
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9780199214976 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786611975692 |
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