The Cosmic Oasis: The Remarkable Story of Earth's Biosphere - Hardcover

Williams, Mark; Zalasiewicz, Jan

 
9780198845874: The Cosmic Oasis: The Remarkable Story of Earth's Biosphere
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198845871 ISBN 13: 9780198845874
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Williams, Professorof Palaeobiology, University of Leicester,Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester

Mark Williams is a Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester, a sometime British Geological Survey palaeontologist, and a former scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. He has a strong interest in how the fossil record reflects changes in our planet through time. He teaches many aspects of geology and palaeontology and has published many papers in scientific journals.


Jan Zalasiewicz is Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester, before that working at the British Geological Survey. A field geologist, palaeontologist, and stratigrapher, he is a researcher into fossil ecosystems and environments across over half a billion years of geological time. He has published over a hundred papers in scientific journals.


Together they are the authors of The Goldilocks Planet, (2012); Ocean Worlds (2014); and Skeletons (2018).

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198845871
ISBN 13 
9780198845874
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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