Silica Stories by Christina De La Rocha, Daniel J. Conley.

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, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	De La Rocha, Christina (Author), Conley, Daniel J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:	1st ed. 2017.
Series:	Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Earth. Geology. Nature. Environment. Geobiology. Geochemistry. Marine sciences. Freshwater. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

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.

Silica Stories by Christina De La Rocha, Daniel J. Conley.

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