Jan Zalasiewicz (Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Le, Mark Williams (Professor in Geology at the University of Leicester)

Broschiertes Buch

Ocean Worlds

The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets

Beschreibung

Oceans feed us and affect our climate. With climate change, pollution, and overfishing, our oceans are at risk as never before. Yet we are only just learning their history and processes. Here, Zalasiewicz and Williams describe what we know of their origin and development on Earth, oceans on other planets, and what the future might hold for our own.

Autor

Jan Zalasiewicz teaches and researches geology at the University of Leicester, and previously was a field geologist and biostratigrapher at the British Geological Survey. His interests range from the early Palaeozoic world of half a billion years ago to the geology of the present day. He has served with the Palaeontographical Society and the Geological Society of London, and is now Chair of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and Vice-Chair of the International Subcommission of Stratigraphic Classification. Mark Williams is a palaeontologist who teaches the geological history of climate change at the University of Leicester. He has worked as a field geologist for the British Geological and British Antarctic surveys, and served on the council of the Palaeontographical Society both as an Editor and Vice-President. Currently he is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, and the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London. Together they have co-authored The Goldilocks Planet: The four billion year story of Earth's Climate (OUP, 2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780199672899
• ISBN-10: 019967289X
• Artikelnr.: 48852514