Ebook: Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences

The enormous escalation of interest in space and the cosmos has resulted in a corresponding enormous escalation of interest in the Earth. Just what is the planet Earth ? How did it come to be? What may happen to it? What can we hope to gain from the Earth? Which of its resources will be exhausted, and when? For years a group of professors at Cambridge University, in collaboration with professors at M.I.T.. Oxford, the University of California and elsewhere, have been supervising the preparation of a full-scale authoritative encyclopedia covering the current knowledge of the Earth and the sciences related to it. Now The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences is ready. A companion volume to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, it contains a full complement of illustrations, maps and diagrams — 500 — of which 250 are in full color, 250 in monochrome. This encyclopedia covers a number of sciences - geology, mineralogy, oceanography, the physics and chemistry of the Earth, seismology, as well as weather, gravity, energy, the environment, and the Earth's relation to the solar system and the cosmos. Beginning with a historical survey of the Earth Sciences, the introductory section sets the Earth in its context in the solar system and beyond. This is followed by accounts of the Earth's physics and chemistry, areas in which recent research has provided some of the most fundamental insights into the way the whole Earth has evolved from a cloud of dust and now behaves. Because our lives, and the lives of all the people of the world, are crucially dependent on these things, it is vitally important for us to know the basic factors that affect the Earth. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences is lucid, intriguing and easily understood. It represents a truly monumental undertaking by internationally respected scientists and scholars under the guidance of American, Canadian and British experts.

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The enormous escalation of interest in space and the cosmos has resulted in a corresponding enormous escalation of interest in the Earth. Just what is the planet Earth ? How did it come to be? What may happen to it? What can we hope to gain from the Earth? Which of its resources will be exhausted, and when? For years a group of professors at Cambridge University, in collaboration with professors at M.I.T.. Oxford, the University of California and elsewhere, have been supervising the preparation of a full-scale authoritative encyclopedia covering the current knowledge of the Earth and the sciences related to it. Now The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences is ready. A companion volume to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, it contains a full complement of illustrations, maps and diagrams — 500 — of which 250 are in full color, 250 in monochrome. This encyclopedia covers a number of sciences - geology, mineralogy, oceanography, the physics and chemistry of the Earth, seismology, as well as weather, gravity, energy, the environment, and the Earth's relation to the solar system and the cosmos. Beginning with a historical survey of the Earth Sciences, the introductory section sets the Earth in its context in the solar system and beyond. This is followed by accounts of the Earth's physics and chemistry, areas in which recent research has provided some of the most fundamental insights into the way the whole Earth has evolved from a cloud of dust and now behaves. Because our lives, and the lives of all the people of the world, are crucially dependent on these things, it is vitally important for us to know the basic factors that affect the Earth. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences is lucid, intriguing and easily understood. It represents a truly monumental undertaking by internationally respected scientists and scholars under the guidance of American. Canadian and British experts.