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333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-color photographs-a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars"--
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U.S. Geological Survey bulletin volume 435
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88 pages : illustrations, 17 plates (including 3 folded maps) ; 24 cm.
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English
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This videodisc showcases the latest scientific revelations from a planet, once alien, now poised to reveal provocative new clues in the tantalizing quest to plumb its past for signs of water and, perhaps, even life.
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260 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 20 cm
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English
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The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a biography of Earth, charting...
27) Planet earth
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Introduces the planet Earth, including its orbit, geology, oceans, atmosphere, weather, and inhabitants.
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Scenic trips to the geologic past volume no. 3
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47 pages : illustrations,map, diagrams ; 23 cm
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English
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Special publication volume no. 11
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vi, 474 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Mighty, elemental forces, fiery eruptions, titanic floods, the grinding of great ice sheets, and massive impacts from space molded North America. This spectacular road trip through our nation's tumultuous past sets out to answer three fundamental questions: How was the continent built? How did life evolve here? And how has its spectacular landscape shaped human lives and destinies?
36) Amazing planet
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2 videodiscs (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Using CGI, National Geographic, NASA, and the U.S. Geological Survey show how the planet's mountains, land masses, and oceans were formed.
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English
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Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
"Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival: Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of...
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xxi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"An exhilarating, time-traveling journey to the solar system's strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes. Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of...
40) Geology of the American Southwest: a journey through two billion years of plate-tectonic history
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xiii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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English
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