Stare at the ocean

Author: Pang Tianshu
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Literature and science meet and merge in this series, presenting a fresh and unique creative approach that brings profound Earth science to the general public. After reading this series, perhaps a child will fall in love with mountains and rivers and become tomorrow's ambitious Earth scientist. This book tells the story of the ocean. The planet embryo detached from the solar body to form the primitive Earth. After 500 million years of self-evolution and relentless waiting, the land was finally covered by the blue ocean. Life molecules were born in the seawater and electric light, and oxygen was produced by blue-green algae. Various fish evolved in the sea one after another. When large parts of the seabed rose to form land, sea ferns were forced to land. Plants finally took root on the land, and the lobe-finned fish also chose the painful and deadly journey to land, becoming the ancestors of all terrestrial animals. The ocean remains the great mother, giving birth to the finest child—the shark. Meanwhile, some land mammals one day came to the coastline, awakened by the boundless waters to their distant memories, like the ancestors of life, they roamed the ocean and finally returned to their oceanic homeland, becoming the largest species on Earth to date—the whale. The deep ocean hides countless mysteries and secrets. The surging volcanoes constantly renew the oceanic crust, with new oceans born and old oceans dying, as the Himalayas rise from the ancient oceanic crust. Humans have created a long-standing civilization along rivers, yet they also wish to follow the rivers to explore the unfamiliar sea. The Middle Ages' Age of Discovery accompanied by death and plunder ultimately led humans to find all the unknown continents.