The journey to the center of the earth is a voyage like other we can imagine. Over 3000 km below the earth's surface, an extraordinary inner world the size of Mars awaits us. Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere -an iron-clad world held within a metal sea and unattached to anything above. At the earth's core is the history of our planet written in temperature and pressure, crystals and minerals ...Our planet appears tranquil from outer space. And yet the arcs of volcaes, the earthquake zones, and the auroral glow rippling above our heads are testimony to the remarkable happenings within the earth's core. For thousands of years these phemena were explained in legend and myth. Only in recent times has the brave new science of seismology emerged. One hundred and fifty years after the extraordinary, imaginative feat of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, David Whitehouse embarks on a voyage of scientific discovery into the heart of our world. Seismologists today reveal a planet astonishingly buried within a planet. We watch as supercomputers convert signals from the ground into three-dimensional scans of subterranean continents. We will visit laboratories where scientists attempt to reproduce the intense conditions at the center of the Earth, travel down the throat of a volca, look into the deepest hole ever drilled, and imagine a voyage through ermous crystals of iron...all at the center of our incredible Earth.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pegasus Books
ISBN-10
1605989592
ISBN-13
9781605989594
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221397037
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
NY
Content Note
16 Pages of Color Illustrations
Author Biography
Dr David Whitehouse is a scientist and journalist. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a regular broadcaster on science-related matters for the BBC and Sky News. Asteroid 4036 Whitehouse is named after him. Follow him on Twitter: @dr_david_w
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Author(s)
David Whitehouse
Date of Publication
01/02/2016
Subject
Geography & Earth Science: Textbooks & Study Guides
Imprint
Pegasus Books
Country of Publication
United States
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