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(Paperback)

By: Malcolm Laird

ISBN: 9781927145999
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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This volume is the culmination of a comprehensive survey of New Zealands CretaceousCenozoic strata, begun in 1978, and presents an up-to-date synthesis and interpretation of regional sedimentary information from a variety of sources; the study has been expanded to include large areas of the continental shelf and beyond.


(Paperback)

By: Grant Heiken

ISBN: 9780691130385
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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From humble beginnings, Rome became perhaps the greatest intercontinental power in the world. This book demonstrates the important link between the history of Rome and its geologic setting. It contains chapters that are arranged geographically, based on the seven hills, the Tiber floodplain, the ancient creeks that dissected the plateau, and more.


(Hardback)

By: Christopher Somerville

ISBN: 9780857527110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 24th August 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Christopher Somerville

ISBN: 9781804991060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: John J.W. Rogers

ISBN: 9781440835926
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: John J.W. Rogers

ISBN: 9780313355585
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Describes how both slow changes and rapid, violent, ones of the earth have impacted the development of civilizations throughout history. This volume includes a glossary, numerous illustrations, and a bibliography of works useful for further research.


(Hardback)

By: Wallace Broecker

ISBN: 9780691143545
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What were the repercussions of past climate shifts How do we know such shifts occurred This book shows how Earth scientists study ancient ice cores and marine sediments to probe Earth's distant past, and how they blend scientific detective work with the technological advances to try to predict the future.


(Paperback)

By: Herbert Edgar Wright

ISBN: 9780691624426
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era--the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States. Over eighty Quaternary scientists have contributed to the fifty-five chapters divided into four main parts.


(Hardback)

By: Herbert Edgar Wright

ISBN: 9780691651026
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Main)

By: Nick Davidson

ISBN: 9781788163781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet.


(Hardback)

By: Iain Stewart

ISBN: 9780718187187
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Roger Osborne

ISBN: 9780712666862
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1999
UK Publication Date: 6th May 1999
Publisher: Vintage
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By using different ways of describing the world of scientific endeavour, the author has produced a fascinating visually beautiful and highly entertaining book which allows us to witness the birth of a new science - the science of geology.


(Paperback)

By: Alan McKirdy

ISBN: 9781780277486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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The south of Scotland has a long and turbulent geological past. Perhaps most notably, it marks the place where, 432 million years ago, an ocean, once as wide as the north Atlantic, was compressed by a convergence of ancient lands and then ceased to be.


(Paperback)

By: Patrick Nunn

ISBN: 9781399421058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Patrick Nunn

ISBN: 9781472943286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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How much of what became the folk tales of our ancestors was rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and what can they tell us about the future