The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History pdf

莱斯特大学古生物学教授 扬·扎拉谢维奇 深入研究了人类世。 Jan Zalasiewicz 是英国莱斯特大学古生物学教授。 在早期的职业生涯中，他是英国地质调查局的野外地质学家和古生物学家，致力于破译英格兰东部的地层，然后是威尔士中部的山脉。 现在，他为本科生和研究生教授地质学和地球历史，并研究超过 50 亿年地质时间的化石生态系统和环境。 在过去的几年里，他一直参与帮助发展关于人类世的想法，这是人类现在在地球表面推动大量地质学的概念，并担任国际地层学委员会人类世工作组的主席。

The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History pdf 扬·扎拉谢维奇

This is the story of a single pebble, whose history carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. Indeed, starting from this tiny, common speck, Jan Zalasiewicz offers readers a stimulating tour that begins with the Universe's dramatic birth in the unimaginable violence of the Big Bang and explores the construction of the Solar System and the origins of our own planet. Zalasiewicz shows the almost incredible complexity present in the apparently mundane pebble, starting with the astonishing number of atoms in each. We learn that many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a pebble: volcanic eruptions; the lives and deaths of extinct animals and plants; the alien nature of long-vanished oceans; and even the creations of fool's gold and oil deep underground. Zalasiewicz also demonstrates how geologists reach deep into the Earth's past by forensic analysis of even the tiniest amounts of mineral matter. The pebble may be small, and ordinary, but it is also an eloquent part of our Earth's extraordinary, never-ending story.