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Snowball Earth : the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it / Gabrielle Walker

By:

Walker, Gabrielle

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers , c2003.Description: xiii, 269 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780609609736

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

551.6 WAL

LOC classification:

QE507 .W35 2003

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	551.6 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		004773

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.

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