Beschreibung
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Formation of the Sun and the planets.- Formation and Early Childhood of the Earth.- Water, Continents and Organic Matter.- Intermezzo: Gestation of Life and its First Steps.- Late Bombardment.- Messages from the Most Ancient Terrestrial Rocks.- Diversification of Life on Planet Earth.- Exoplanets and habitability of planets.- Epilogue.- Classification of Rocks.- Glossary.- Bibliography.
Autorenporträt
Muriel Gargaud is an astrophysicist at the University of Bordeaux and at the CNRS. She is an experience editor and author in the field of astrobiology. Purificación López-García is a biologist and research director at the CNRS. Hervé Martin is a geologist and teaches at the University of Clermond-Ferrand. Thierry Montmerle is professor at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. Robert Pascal is a chemist at the CNRS and at the University of Montpellier.
