A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice (Wiley Popular Scienc)
by Doug Macdougall
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Four and a half billion years long, Earth's history is the fascinating, magnificent product of creation, transformation, evolution, and extinction. A Short History of Planet Earth chronicles this complex life story in an accessible and thoroughly engaging single volume that charts the geologic and biological life of our dynamic planet. A Short History of Planet Earth, the ideal, concise introduction to earth and life sciences, includes a handy glossary of geologic terms, and forty show more information-packed illustrations. show lessTags
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I have degrees in physics, but took almost no "earth science" courses. That said, I found this book to be fantastically informative on the subject of Earth's scientifically determined history. It's an excellent summary of a field that is relatively new (compared to the more basic sciences of astronomy, math, physics, and chemistry).
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Doug Macdougall is Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, and resides in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of Why Geology Matters, Nature's Clocks (both from UC Press), and A Short History of Planet Earth.
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