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Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations

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Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations - Schoch, Robert M.
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Twenty million years ago a meteorite weighing 10 billion tons and moving at least 50,000 mph smashed into the Earth just below the North Pole. It vapourized on impact, releasing energy equivalent to 100,000 megatons of TNT, killing every living organism within thousands of miles. Before this the Arctic was covered with birch forest browsed by now extinct forms of rhinoceros and deer. Robert Schoch, geologist and palaeontologist, tells a new story of the Earth written in the ancient rocks of this planet. He finds that, far ...

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Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations 2000, Thorsons, London

ISBN-13: 9780722539859

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Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations 1999, Harmony, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780609603697

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