Timefulness : : How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World / / Marcia Bjornerud.
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of ni...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The Allure of Timelessness
- A Call for Timefulness
- An Atlas of Time
- The Pace of the Earth
- Changes in the Air
- Great Accelerations
- Timefulness, Utopian and Scientific
- Epilogue
- APPENDIXES
- I. Simplified Geologic Timescale
- II. Duration and Rate of Earth Phenomena
- III. Environmental Crises in Earth's History: Causes and Consequences
- Notes
- Index