The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World | University of British Columbia, Okanagan |
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Times Books, Henry Holt and Company | Clarke's Table of Crust Oxides Compound Formula Composition SiO 2 59 |
Note that the ice shields of Antarctica and Greenland are counted as land, even though much of the rock which supports them lies below sea level.
22Naval Observatory and Bureau International des Poids et Mesures | 3 The first photograph ever taken of an "Earthrise," on |
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Due to natural fluctuations, ambiguities surrounding , and mapping conventions for , exact values for land and ocean coverage are not meaningful |