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SUMMARY:Fire on Earth: an intimate history - Professor Andrew Scott (Royal
  Holloway University of London)
DTSTART:20150313T133000Z
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CONTACT:Jack Wright
DESCRIPTION:Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is bot
 h simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to pos
 sess life as we know it. Life created the oxygen and hydrocarbon fuel that
  combustion requires\, it arranges those fuels according to processes of e
 volutionary selection and ecological dynamics\, and in the form of humanit
 y it supplies the most abundant source of ignition. Fire is an expression 
 of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as inte
 gral\, unique\, or ancient. Yet while the significance of fire can hardly 
 be doubted\, it rarely enters the discourse of relevant disciplines or app
 ears in standard texts of geology\, biology\, human history\, physics\, or
  global chemistry. This lecture will consider the most important advances 
 in our understanding of Fire on Earth and not only emphasize new methods i
 n observing fire today but also the 400 million year record of fire on the
  planet.
LOCATION:Tilley Lecture Theater\, Department of Earth Sciences
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