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Soil Grown Tall The Epic Saga of Life from Earth




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Editore:

Springer

Pubblicazione: 02/2022
Edizione: 1st ed. 2022





Trama

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or interested colleagues. It provides comprehensive information on paleosols, which are soils of the past providing a variety of clues to the evolution of life and climate on Earth and deals with topics such as the evolution of grassland ecosystems, mass extinction of the Late Permian and origin of life, all viewed from the perspective of the fossil record of soils. This turns out to be a refreshing new perspective of wide interest.





Sommario

Chapter 1. Rainbow rocks 

Chapter 2. Soil as a many splendored thing                                                                                   

Chapter 3. Civilization built from soil                                                                                            

Chapter 4. Humanity from global change                                                                                       

Chapter 5. Grass that changed the world                                                                                       

Chapter 6. Death from the sky                                                                                                       

Chapter 7. An occasion for flowers                                                                                              

Chapter 8. Dinosaurs and dirt                                                                                                       

Chapter 9. World's greatest mid-life crisis                                                                                    

Chapter 10. Roots of trees                                                                                                            

Chapter 11. Mighty millipedes                                                                                                     

Chapter 12. Lichens and till                                                                                                          

Chapter 13. When the rust set in                                                                                                  

Chapter 14. Soils in space                                                                                          &





Autore

Gregory J. Retallack is an emeritus professor at the University of Oregon best known for his research on the fossil record of soils. His efforts at detailed characterization and interpretation of paleosols is documented in more than 300 refereed publications and 12 books. His textbook “Soils of the past” is now in its third edition. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, and recipient of the Stillwell Medal of the Geological Society of Australia and the Ingerson Award of the Geochemical Society. Three fossil species have been named in his honor: a fern, angiosperm leaf, and mouse deer.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9783030887384

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 623 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:XXVIII, 275 p. 102 illus., 32 illus. in color.
Pagine Arabe: 275
Pagine Romane: xxviii


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