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  • Tree-ring Dating and Archaeology

    by M.G.L. Baillie ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
    The analysis of tree-ring patterns, or dendrochronology, is a very exact science and an important dating technique. The basis of the method is misleadingly simple: that overlap of successive older ring patterns can generate a master chronology and samples of unknown age can then be checked against this.This book, published originally in 1982, traces the development of a specific project from its ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • A Slice Through Time

    Dendrochronology and Precision Dating

    by M.G.L. Baillie ...
    The dramatic development of European oak chronologies over the last ten years parallels and supplements the bristlecone-pine chronology in the United States. Dendrochronologists can now provide a wood sample - a time capsule of biological material - for any calender date over the last seven millennia from two continents. For archaeologists, resigned to the imprecision of radiocarbon dating, the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Supercontinent

    10 Billion Years In The Life Of Our Planet

    by Ted Nield ...
    The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision: 250 million years from now, all the land masses on this planet will come together in a single, gigantic supercontinent which no human is ever likely to see. That future supercontinent will not be the first to form on Earth, nor will it be the last. Each cycle lasts half a billion years, making it the grandest of all the ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • The Emerald Planet

    How plants changed Earth's history

    by David Beerling ...
    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Extinction

    Evolution and the End of Man

    by Michael Boulter ...
    How long do humans have left on Earth? Using cutting-edge science that revolutionises our understanding of evolution, Michael Boulter explains how we may be closer to our own extinction than we imagined.Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed in a mass extinction event that could not have been predicted. Out of the devastation, new life developed and the world regained its ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Landscapes and Geomorphology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Holocene

    An Environmental History

    by Neil Roberts ...
    The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes determined by natural forces to those dominated by human actions, including those of climate and greenhouse gases. Understanding the environmental ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Goldilocks Planet

    The 4 billion year story of Earth's climate

    by Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams ...
    Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level take place, and as human society adapts to these changes. In this remarkable new work, Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams demonstrate how the Earth's climate has ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Before Civilization

    by Lord Colin Renfrew ...
    The refinement of radiocarbon dating using the information form tree-ring counts has raised serious doubts about the accepted theoretical frameowkr of European prehistory. Monuments in Central and Western Europe have proved to be considerably older than their supposed Near-Eastern forerunners, and the record must be almost completely rewritten in the light of these new dates. Before Civilsation is ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Physical Geography: The Key Concepts

    by Richard John Huggett ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Physical Geography: The Key Concepts is a thought-provoking and up-to-date introduction to the central ideas and debates within the field. It provides extended definitions of terms that are fundamental to physical geography and its many branches, covering topics such as:biogeographyecologyclimatologymeteorologygeomorphologyhydrologypedolog... ... Read more

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  • When the Sahara Was Green

    How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be

    by Martin Williams ...
    The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • Rocks

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD