It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern Europe and that the discovery of geological time in the eighteenth century came as a momentous breakthrough that shook the faith in…
Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways. "Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or split…
"This concise handbook presents a summary of Earth's history as well as a brief overview of contemporaneous events on the Moon, Mars, and Venus. ... The Concise Geologic Time Scale is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum an…
