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Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered debris derived from rocks, and we obtain nearly all of the raw materials with which we found our civilization from rocks. From the Earth's crust to building bricks, rocks contain our sense of planetary history, and are a guide to our future.In this Ver...
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Zalasiewicz, Jan
- ISBN13 9780198725190
- ISBN10 0198725191
- Pages 160
- Published 2016
- Language English
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Rocks: A Very Short Introduction
- By
- Jan Zalasiewicz
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- Oxford University Press (2016)
- 9780198725190
- Series Very Short Introductions
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