LIBROS DEL AUTOR: andrew yglikson

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  • Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fire and the Anthropocene Climate Event Horizon
    Andrew Y. Glikson / Andrew YGlikson
    Unique among all creatures, further to the increase in its cranial volume from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, the use of tools and cultural and scientific creativity, the genus Homo is distinguished by the mastery of fire, which since about two million years ago has become its blueprint. Through the Holocene and culminating in the Anthropocene, the burning of much of the te...
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    68,30 €

  • The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution
    Andrew Y. Glikson / Andrew YGlikson
    When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution. Since the 1980s the discovery and study of asteroid impact ejecta in the oldest well-preserved terrains of We...
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    68,21 €