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

by Jan Zalasiewicz

Book Overview

This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space.

This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginable violence in distal realms of the Universe, in the Big Bang and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199645698
• ISBN13: 9780199645695
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.6"