The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

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Overview

Jan Zalasiewicz shows how scientists put together clues from the rocks to understand the past, its landscapes and climate, and the nature of the creatures that inhabited it. A thin layer of silt here, a trace formed by a crawling worm there - the clues are often subtle and difficult to read. But by such clues would future geologists - whether hyper-evolved rat or alien visitor - work out our story. Zalasiewicz explores which of our structures are likely to leave traces, and what future explorers might make of us and the impact we made on our environment.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199214976
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 11/15/2008
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

bJan Zalasiewicz is a lecturer in Geology at the University of Leicester. A field geologist, palaeontologist and statigrapher, he has published over a hundred papers in scientific journals.

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Table of Contents

Geological timeline

1 Perspective 1

2 100 Million Years AD 7

3 The Strata Machine 13

4 Tectonic Escalator 37

5 High Water, Low Water 59

6 Dynasties 87

7 Echoes 119

8 Traces 159

9 Body of Evidence 191

10 Meeting the People 219

Further Reading 243

Index 247

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