TY - BOOK TI - This is planet Earth: your ultimate guide to the world we call home T2 - NewScientist SN - 9781473670389 U1 - 551 PL AN CY - Boston, MA : PB - Nicholas Brealey Publishing, , c2018. KW - Surface of the Earth KW - Age KW - Planets KW - Surfaces N1 - Includes index N2 - "Formed from the debris of the Big Bang and long-dead stars, Earth has been both a hellish modern blob and a giant snowball. For a billion years it nurtured strange lifeforms before committing a global genocide. In doing so, it created the conditions for life as we know it, and today its ozone layer and magnetic field protect that life from the worst ravages of the Sun."--Back cover. UR - https://uowd.box.com/s/mmmy1sr4sfsm55dxwl2ac8mmevn52v67 ER -