How It Works

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WHAT’S HIDDEN INSIDE PLANETS?

THE INNER WORKINGS OF EARTH AND OTHER WORLDS

AUTHOR SABINE STANLEY

PUBLISHER JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Professor Sabine Stanley is a Harvard-educated planetary scientist who, despite being brought up the daughter of restaurateurs, feels she was almost destined to pursue her vocation by spending her formative years in an Italian eatery in Sudbury, Ontario. Stanley describes the Canadian mining town as a “geologist’s dream landscape” – and all because a humongous bolide, a meteorite or comet, hit this location nearly 2 billion years ago and melted a huge swathe of rock a mile beneath the impact site, bringing all sorts of rare

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