The Young Earth - Hardcover

Nisbet, E.G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0045500452 ISBN 13: 9780045500451

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

'What are we going to do with a parcel of old stones?' wrote the director of an African museum a century and a half ago, when one of my ancestors presented him with a splendid collection of fossils of mammal-like reptiles. Old stones, however intriguing, are difficult to interpret, dusty, and do not fit well in the neatly ordered contents of a house of learning. Archaean geology, which is the study of the Earth's history in the period from after 9 the end of planetary accretion (4.5-4.4 x 10 years ago) up to the beginning 9 of the Proterozoic (2.5 x 10 years ago) is much the same - a parcel of old stones seemingly impossible to understand. Yet these stones contain the history of our origins: they can tell us a story that is interesting not just to the geologist (for whom this book is primarily written) but instead addresses the human condition in general.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0045500452
• ISBN 13: 9780045500451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416