TY - BOOK ID - 77875851 TI - The Earth after us AU - Zalasiewicz, J. A AU - Freedman, Kim PY - 2008 SN - 1281975699 9786611975692 0191550493 9780191550492 0199214972 9780199214976 PB - Oxford, UK Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Biogeomorphology. KW - Historical geology. KW - Paleoanthropology. KW - Extinction (Biology) KW - Nature KW - Anthropogenic effects on nature KW - Ecological footprint KW - Human beings KW - Anthropogenic soils KW - Human ecology KW - Animals KW - Extirpation (Biology) KW - Biology KW - Extinct animals KW - Human paleontology KW - Anthropology, Prehistoric KW - Paleontology KW - Physical anthropology KW - Fossil hominids KW - Geology KW - Biogeography KW - Geomorphology KW - Effect of human beings on. KW - Extinction KW - Extirpation KW - Extinction (Biology). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77875851 AB - If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This engaging and thought-provoking account looks at what our species will leave behind, buried deep in the rock strata, and provides us with a warning of our devastating environmental impact. - ;Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader one hundred million years into the future, long after the human race became extinct, to explore what will remain of humanity's brief but dramatic sojourn on planet Earth. He tells how geologists in the far future - perhap ER -