The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future), the basics of geomagnetic reversals, spreading mid-ocean ridges, and plate tectonics (cf. Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything), past climates as reconstructed from ice cores (cf. Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth), the use of isotopes to date rocks (cf. “ Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World“, written by Marcia Bjornerud, published by Princeton University Press in September 2018 (hardback, 208 pages)ījornerud assumes little geological background knowledge on behalf of her readers and uses the first two-thirds of the book to give a canned history of relevant discoveries, including: past estimates of Earth’s age and the conceptualisation of deep time (cf.
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