Snowball Earth : the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it
Walker, Gabrielle
Snowball Earth : the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it / Gabrielle Walker - New York : Crown Publishers , c2003. - xiii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Walker (contributing editor, ), who has a doctorate in natural sciences from Cambridge U., UK, has written a lively account of Harvard geologist Paul Hoffman's theories of the origins of life on earth that he believes followed its complete freezing over. Writing for the popular reader, Walker explains the geology in lay terms, and it is the details of Hoffman's travels to remote and often frozen areas that move the narrative.
9780609609736
2002011348
Snowball earth (Geology)
Paleoclimatology----Proterozoic
Life----Origin
QE507 / .W35 2003
551.6 WAL
Snowball Earth : the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it / Gabrielle Walker - New York : Crown Publishers , c2003. - xiii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Walker (contributing editor, ), who has a doctorate in natural sciences from Cambridge U., UK, has written a lively account of Harvard geologist Paul Hoffman's theories of the origins of life on earth that he believes followed its complete freezing over. Writing for the popular reader, Walker explains the geology in lay terms, and it is the details of Hoffman's travels to remote and often frozen areas that move the narrative.
9780609609736
2002011348
Snowball earth (Geology)
Paleoclimatology----Proterozoic
Life----Origin
QE507 / .W35 2003
551.6 WAL
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