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  title info:
    title: Silica Stories
  name:
    name part: De La Rocha, Christina.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Conley, Daniel J.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 201 p. 39 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Do you know silica, the tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen constituting the crystals of New Agers and the desiccant in a box of new shoes? It's no mere mundane mineral. As chemically reacting silicate rocks, silica set off the chain of events known as the origin of life. As biomineralized opal, it is the cell wall, skeleton, spicules, and scales of organisms ornamenting numerous lobes of the tree of life. Cryptocrystalline silica made into stone tools helped drive the evolution of our hands and our capability for complex grammar, music, and mathematics. As quartz crystals, silica is impressively electric and ubiquitous in modern technology (think sonar, radios, telephones, ultrasound, and cheap but precise watches). Silica is inescapable when we take a drink or mow the lawn and it has already started to save the Earth from the carbon dioxide we're spewing into the atmosphere. This book tells these scientific tales and more, to give dear, modest silica its due.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Origin of Life Was Brought to You in Part by Silicate Rocks -- 3. The Making of Humankind: Silica Lends a Hand (and Maybe a Brain). - 4. Mystical Crystals of Silica -- 5. Glass Houses -- 6. Chicks Need Silica, Too -- 7. Of Fields, Phytoliths, and Hippo Poo -- 8. Silica, Be Dammed! -- 9. No Such Thing as Normal -- 10. Geoengineering, aka Silica to Save the World.
  note: by Christina De La Rocha, Daniel J. Conley.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Earth
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Marine sciences
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Earth Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Marine & Freshwater Sciences
  classification: QE1-996.5
  classification: 550
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319540542
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54054-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 170316
    record change date: 20170316104554.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-54054-2