Earth's Restless Surface

by Deidre Janson - Smith (Author), Gordon Cressey (Contributor), Andrew Fleet (Contributor)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.14

  This is a newly revised edition of the Natural History Museum's classic introduction to the processes and products of change to the Earth's surface. It explains in accessible language how the planet is being constantly remodelled by powerful natural forces and guides us through geological time and space to recreate past landscapes. With photographs, diagrams and maps, this timely book has also been updated with all the latest information about the human impact on climate change and considers the challenge of predicting the future.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $8.54

  The surface of the Earth is and always has been in flux, constantly being remodelled by powerful natural forces. This text explores the processes and evidence of change, explaining how to recognize past events in the rocks, guiding through geological time to recreate past landscapes, and illustrating agents of erosion such as water, wind and ice sculpting solid landscapes, rocks amd materials recycling at the Earth's surface, and human impact on global cycles and climate change. This book complements the exhibition entitled Restless Surface in the Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London.