The book may be divided roughly into three nearly equal parts, dealing respectively with the origin and past history of the earth (considered as a basis for conclusions about its present condition ...

Supplementary resources are available online, making this an invaluable reference for researchers, graduate students, professional geoscientists and anyone interested in the geological history of the ...

We will use observations from the rock and fossil record, along with insights and comparisons to modern Earth processes, to analyze the pattern and explore the causes of those changes over billions of ...

Earth's tectonic history is what it is because of our planet's material composition. It's not like this on all planets, nor even all the rocky planets in our own solar system. However, the garnet ...

The Earth is really, really old. Over 4 1/2 billion years old, in fact. How do we begin to comprehend a number that large? It helps to put it on a more fathomable scale. Watch to see where Earth's ...

Prof Joanna Haigh from Imperial College London explains why this gas has played a crucial role in shaping the Earth's climate. Carbon dioxide (CO2) has been present in the atmosphere since the ...

From wasps to whales, the Natural History Museum was built to catalogue the world's natural riches ... Today, the Museum is a world-class research facility and a monument to Earth's biodiversity.

But is it really unprecedented? In a series of five programmes, Justin Rowlatt explores the geochemical history of life on Earth, and discovers how humans are just the latest species to suddenly ...