The Story of the Earth
By The Story of the EarthF.W. Dunning, P. J. Adams, J.C. Thackray, S. van Rose, I.F. Mercer & R.H. Roberts
(1981)
€3.50

ISBN: 0-11-884166-1

The Earth is a small, rocky planet with large quantities of surface water whose average temperature lies between freezing point and boiling point. It also has a dense oxygen-rich atmosphere and supports life in abundance.

Yet the cool blue-and-white it presents to outer space conceals a fiery white-hot interior. The cosmic origin of this ceaselessly moving inferno and how it has created the environment of land, sea and air we live in is told in this booklet from the Geological Musuem of London series.