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- First book relating the scientific charms of silica to a general audience
- Presents a set of ten clearly written chapters on ten independent, multi-disciplinary topics on silica
- Intended to not only convey up-to-the minute scientific information, but to paint a picture of Earth as an interacting set of geological, biological, and chemical processes
- Shows Earth's interacting processes as interwoven into the pre-history, history, present, and future of human beings
- Written by two of the world's leading experts on silica in the biosphere and geosphere
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Writer and Visiting Scientist, Department of Geology, Lund University , Fargau-Pratjau, Germany
Christina De La Rocha
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Geologiska institutionen, Lund University Geologiska institutionen, Lund, Sweden
Daniel J. Conley
About the authors
Christina De La Rocha
http://www.geology.lu.se/christina-de-la-rocha
Christina De La Rocha is a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Geology at Lund University, Sweden. She has previously been a Lecturer in Earth Sciences (University of Cambridge, UK), Senior Scientist (Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research, Germany), and Professor of Marine Science (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France). She has co-edited a previous book (Work Meets Life: Exploring the Integrative Study of Work in Living Systems) and started to write short science fiction (Pleistocene Brains).
Daniel Conley
http://www.geology.lu.se/daniel-conley
Daniel Conley is Professor of Biogeochemistry (Lund University, Sweden), Wallenberg Scholar, and Pew Fellow.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Silica Stories
Authors: Christina De La Rocha, Daniel J. Conley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54054-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54053-5Published: 23 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85306-2Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54054-2Published: 15 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 201
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Earth Science, Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Biogeosciences, Geochemistry, Marine & Freshwater Sciences