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1) Growth of a prehistoric time scale, based on organic evolution

Author

Berry, William B. N

Publisher

W. H. Freeman

Pub. Date

[1968]

Language

English

2) Mysteries of terra firma: the age and evolution of the world

Author

Powell, James Lawrence

Publisher

Free Press

Pub. Date

[2001]

Language

English

3) Nature's clocks: how scientists measure the age of almost everything

Author

Macdougall, J. D

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

4) How do we know the age of the earth

Author

Caes, Charles J

Series

Great scientific questions and the scientists who answered them

Publisher

Rosen Pub. Group

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

5) In my own backyard

Author

Kurjian, Judi

Publisher

Charlesbridge

Pub. Date

[1993]

Language

English

Description

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A young child looks out a bedroom window seeing the backyard as it would have looked if she had seen it during various historical and geological periods.

6) Timefulness: how thinking like a geologist can help save the world

Author

Bjornerud, Marcia

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

Description

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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...