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Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us.

Through explanations of the latest research and over 200 fascinating images, Deep Time explores this evidence, from the visible layers in ancient rock to the hiss of static on the radio, and from fossilized shark's teeth to underwater forests. These relics of ancient epochs, many of which we can see and touch today, connect our present to the distant past and answer broader questions about our place in the timeline of the Earth.

Charting 4.5 billion years of geological history, this is the story of our world, from its birth to the dawn of civilization.



Table of Contents

Early Life • Neutrinos • Static • Baryon acoustic oscillations • The Hubble deep fields • Supernova 1997ff • Star clusters • The Wold Cottage meteorite • The missing nuclides • Moon rock • The Canyon Diablo meteorite • Zircons • Impossible lifeforms • The Allan Hills Martian meteorite • Boltwood's uraninite • Acaster gneiss • Stromatolites • Hintze Hall Pilbara iron rock • Snowball Earth • Detrital uraninite • The Grand Canyon - and more.

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      Publisher Headline Publishing Group
      Published 2 September 2021
      ISBN-13 9781787397439
      978-1787397439
      ISBN-10 1787397432
      Also in:
      Science & Nature Popular science Time (chronology), time systems and standards

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us.

      Through explanations of the latest research and over 200 fascinating images, Deep Time explores this evidence, from the visible layers in ancient rock to the hiss of static on the radio, and from fossilized shark's teeth to underwater forests. These relics of ancient epochs, many of which we can see and touch today, connect our present to the distant past and answer broader questions about our place in the timeline of the Earth.

      Charting 4.5 billion years of geological history, this is the story of our world, from its birth to the dawn of civilization.



      Table of Contents

      Early Life • Neutrinos • Static • Baryon acoustic oscillations • The Hubble deep fields • Supernova 1997ff • Star clusters • The Wold Cottage meteorite • The missing nuclides • Moon rock • The Canyon Diablo meteorite • Zircons • Impossible lifeforms • The Allan Hills Martian meteorite • Boltwood's uraninite • Acaster gneiss • Stromatolites • Hintze Hall Pilbara iron rock • Snowball Earth • Detrital uraninite • The Grand Canyon - and more.

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