The earth system / Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting, Robert G. Crane.

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Published: San Francisco : Prentice Hall, c2010.
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245 1 4 |a The earth system /  |c Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting, Robert G. Crane. 
250 |a 3rd ed. 
260 |a San Francisco :  |b Prentice Hall,  |c c2010. 
300 |a xi, 420 p., 16 p. of plates :  |b ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;  |c 28 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Ch. 1. Global Change -- Ch. 2. Daisyworld: An Introduction to Systems -- Ch. 3. Global Energy Balance: The Greenhouse Effect -- Ch. 4. The Atmospheric Circulation System -- Ch. 5. The Circulation of the Oceans -- Ch. 6. The Cryosphere -- Ch. 7. Circulation of the Solid Earth: Plate Tectonics -- Ch. 8. Recycling of the Elements: Carbon and Nutrient Cycles -- Ch. 9. Focus on the Biota: Metabolism, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity -- Ch. 10. Origin of Earth and of Life -- Ch. 11. Effect of Life on the Atmosphere: The Rise of Oxygen and Ozone -- Ch. 12. Long-Term Climate Regulation -- Ch. 13. Biodiversity through Earth History -- Ch. 14. Pleistocene Glaciations -- Ch. 15. Global Warming, Part 1: Recent and Future Climate -- Ch. 16. Global Warming, Part 2: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation -- Ch. 17. Ozone Depletion -- Ch. 18. Human Threats to Biodiversity -- Ch. 19. Climate Stability on Earth and Earthlike Planets. 
650 0 |a Gaia hypothesis. 
700 1 |a Kasting, James F. 
700 1 |a Crane, Robert G. 
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