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Jan Zalasiewicz is a Professor of Paleobiology at the University of Leicester and Chair of the Anthropocene Working Group. His research interests include mudrock processes; early Palaeozoic and Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology; and stratigraphic analysis, notably the study of the Anthropocene concept.
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Discarded

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2025-01-14

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What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished? What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens,...

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What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished? What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete flyways,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-01-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Cosmic Oasis
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Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions. The Earth is a unique as a living planet, a cosmic oasis drifting in the vastness of barren space. It is strikingly...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-05-26

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Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions. The Earth is a unique as a living planet, a cosmic oasis drifting in the vastness of barren space. It is strikingly...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-05-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Volcanoes
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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 indeed of other planets and moons too, encompasses much more than just volcanoes...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-11-26

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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 indeed of other planets and moons too, encompasses much more than just volcanoes...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-11-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Geology
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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 that we cannot see, beneath our feet, and on other planets. The fruits of geology provide most of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-07-16

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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 that we cannot see, beneath our feet, and on other planets. The fruits of geology provide most of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Skeletons
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Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Skeletons
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Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Rocks
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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 giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered debris derived from...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-12-01

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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 giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered debris derived from...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-12-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Ocean Worlds
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Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not only in hosting life, including the fish and other animals on which many humans depend, but in terms of their role in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-24

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Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not only in hosting life, including the fish and other animals on which many humans depend, but in terms of their role in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Goldilocks Planet
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Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level take place, and as human society adapts to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-03-23

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Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level take place, and as human society adapts to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-03-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Planet in a Pebble
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This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Planet in a Pebble
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This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Earth After Us
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What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign?What clues will we leave?What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long dead, so too might...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-09-10

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What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign?What clues will we leave?What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long dead, so too might...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-09-25

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