Into the Heart of Our World
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Into the Heart of Our World

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Into the Heart of Our World

About this book

The journey to the center of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Our planet appears tranquil from outer space. And yet the arcs of volcanoes, 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 phenomena 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 volcano, look into the deepest hole ever drilled, and imagine a voyage through enormous crystals of iron...all at the center of our incredible Earth.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781681773513
eBook ISBN
9781681771045
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geology & Earth Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. The Archive of the Earth
  6. 2. “Descend, bold traveller”
  7. 3. Underworld
  8. 4. Birthmarks
  9. 5. The Survivors
  10. 6. The Messengers
  11. 7. Tenham
  12. 8. The Butler and the Housekeeper
  13. 9. Death on the Ice
  14. 10. Superdeep
  15. 11. The Hansbach
  16. 12. The Pressure Principle
  17. 13. Splinters of the Stars
  18. 14. D-Double-Prime
  19. 15. Dark Matter
  20. 16. Borderlands
  21. 17. Plumes
  22. 18. ‘The old boy beamed upon me’
  23. 19. The Protector
  24. 20. Magnetic Dreams
  25. 21. The Terrella
  26. 22. Reversal
  27. 23. Inside the Inside
  28. 24. Stranger in a Strange Land
  29. 25. The Crystal Forest
  30. 26. Other Worlds, Other Journeys
  31. 27. Journey’s End
  32. 28. Playthings of the Earth
  33. List of Illustrations
  34. Illustrations
  35. Index
  36. Also by David Whitehouse
  37. Copyright

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