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Title:
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The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate /
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Authors:
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Mark Williams, Author ;
J. A. Zalasiewicz, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-19-959357-6
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Format:
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xx, 303 p. / ill., maps / 23 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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QC855
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Subjects:
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Climatic changes
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Global environmental change--Forecasting
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Historical geology
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Nature--Effect of human beings on
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Paleobiogeography
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Paleoclimatology
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Description:
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Presents a history of climate to reveal that the climatic changes happening hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.
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Contents note:
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1. Primordial climate 2. Earth as a snowball 3. Between greenhouse and icehouse 4. The last greenhouse world 5. The ice returns 6. The last of the warmth 7. Into the icehouse 8. The glacial world 9. Birth and death of the Holocene 10. The anthropocene begins.
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Format :
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In print
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