Planet Earth: Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment Cesare Emiliani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Apr 10, 2014 - Picture this: A massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs slams into Earth. 3 days ago - And since hummingbirds have a higher per gram requirement for oxygen than humans, I conclude that if the Earth was was fine-tuned for life, the ultimate aim of God's machinations was hummingbirds, the apotheosis of creation. The size, shape, and roundness help to explain the sandstone's "life history." This lab emphasizes two points. Is life common in the Since all life on Earth is born of liquid water and sustained by liquid water, the absence of liquid water on Titan creates an environment that is completely inhospitable to terrestrial life. From high to low, 10% (wild guess, may be even less) of surface area suitable for cultivation or settlement, frequent large-scale events (meteorological, geological and pestilential/biological) which destroy habitats and reduce populations. Any terrestrial life A typical M-dwarf star is so much less luminous than the Sun that an Earth-sized habitable planet with surface liquid water can only be sustained at one-tenth the Earth-Sun distance from the star. Dec 21, 2013 - I've got some books to recommend on astrobiology, planet Earth and its living creatures, impact cratering, and Mars rovers. So it's an Earth science textbook, but it approaches Earth from a planetary perspective. Dec 15, 2013 - Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments—like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks—have always been done on Earth. First, sand composition reflects the sand's source. Feb 8, 2013 - Testing Life's Cosmic Ubiquity. Now, for the first time, The work, led by geochemist Ken Farley of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), could not only help in understanding the geologic history of Mars but also aid in the search for evidence of ancient life on the planet. Then it goes on to several chapters on the history of life on Earth (with contributions by authors like Roger Summons and James Kasting, whose names I recognize from background reading on Curiosity's mission to search for habitable environments). Lowe "We are trying to understand the forces that shaped our planet early in its evolution and the environments in which life evolved," Lowe said. "We knew it was big, but we didn't know how big," Donald Lowe, a geologist at Stanford University and a co-author of the study, said of the asteroid. Article Environment Scripture and Theology Spirituality Scientific discoveries have made clear that human flesh is part of the evolutionary network of life on this planet, which in turn is a part of the solar system, which in turn came into being as a part of a long cosmic history. 6 days ago - Geologists understand the significance of sand grains in rocks.