Pt. 1. The Astronomical Planet: Earth's Place in the Cosmos. 1. An
Introductory Tour of Earth's Cosmic Neighborhood. 2. Largest and
Smallest Scales. 3. Forces and Energy. 4. Fusion, Fission, Sunlight,
and Element Formation -- Pt. 2. The Measurable Planet: Tools to
Discern the History of Earth and the Planets. 5. Determination of
Cosmic and Terrestrial Ages. 6. Other Uses of Isotopes for Earth
History. 7. Relative Age Dating of Cosmic and Terrestrial Events: The
Cratering Record. 8. Relative Age Dating of Terrestrial Events:
Geologic Layering and Geologic Time. 9. Plate Tectonics: An
Introduction to the Process -- Pt. 3. The Historical Planet: Earth
and Solar System Through Time. 10. Formation of the Solar System. 11.
The Hadean Earth. 12. The Archean Eon and the Origin of Life: I.
Properties of and Sites for Life. 13. The Archean Eon and the Origin
of Life: II. Mechanisms. 14. The First Greenhouse Crisis: The Faint
Early Sun.
15. Climate Histories of Mars and Venus, and the Habitability of
Planets. 16. Earth in Transition: From the Archean to the
Proterozoic. 17. The Oxygen Revolution. 18. The Phanerozoic:
Flowering and Extinction of Complex Life. 19. Climate Change Across
the Phanerozoic. 20. Toward the Age of Humankind -- Pt. 4. The Once
and Future Planet. 21. Climate Change Over the Past 100,000 Years.
22. Human-Induced Global Warming. 23. Limited Resources: The Human
Dilemma. 24. Coda: The Once and Future Earth.
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