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Our Awesome Earth: Its Mysteries and Its Splendors
Our Awesome Earth Its Mysteries and Its Splendors Author:Eckstrom Chris Lee, Paul Martin Although volcanoes can destroy, they can also create. Theory holds that over millions of years, they shaped much of the earth's surface, fed the oceans by spewing forth water vapor, and made possible our atmosphere and life itself by releasing carbon dioxide and other gases. — And the processes of renewal continue. In each of the ... more »major ecosystems explored in this exciting volume, the authors found evidence -- often stunning, sometimes subtle -- of an earth forever in the making. In Wyoming 600-year-old skeletal trees standing submerged in a lake hint at cataclysmic earthquakes that may have lowered the land they grew on by 80 feet.
In the utterly forbidding Sahara, fading frescoes depict the human and animal life that flourished when the region was a "lush, river-laced expanse" thousands of years ago. There and elsewhere, the authors discovered myriad ways in which life has flourished, retreated, or adapted in response to changing environments.
Fascinating facts and more than a hundred spectacular photographs illuminate mysteries and marvels of Our Awesome Earth.« less