Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time

ISBN-13: 9780198734840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Royal Hollowa Earth Sciences Andrew C. (Professor Emeritus

Opis

Andrew Scott, who played a key role in identifying fossilized charcoal, describes the profound impact of fire through Earth history, from its role in mass extinctions and the spread of flowering plants, to early hominid use of fire, and the role of wildfires on landscapes today.

Recenzje

An excellent read for those interested in deep time and the paleorecord, as well as those of us who find charred materials exciting.

O autorze

Andrew Scott is Emeritus Professor of Geology and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has co-authored and edited several academic books on fire, most recently Fire on Earth: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), with David M. J. S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne, and Martin E. Alexander. He appears regularly on radio and television science programmes.