The book explores the Earth's transformation over approximately 4.5 billion years, detailing significant geological, climatic, and biological changes. It offers insights into the planet's past and present, while also contemplating future developments. Through this comprehensive examination, readers gain a deeper understanding of Earth's dynamic history and the forces that have shaped it.
An illustrated introduction to the science surrounding the Earth's resources, both renewable and non-renewable.
Explains the key concepts of tectonics and rock structures to those without a strong mathematical background. The study of geological structures has traditionally been guided by mathematics and physics but, in this book, Graham Park has avoided mathematical equations altogether and has reduced the geometry to the minimum necessary.
Our world is made of rock. Those who live in a landscape where rock outcrops are obvious will have wondered about the kind of rock they are looking at and how they came to be where they are now. Graham Park explains in simple terms what geology can tell us about the world.