The book looks like a good read.
I just finished a book by Hugh Ross entitled "
Designed to the Core".
His book contains sixteen chapters with an appendix called - "Solar Elemental Abundance - Rocky Planet Configuration Link"
The book begins with large-scale cosmic structures including
our own Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies and continues to progress to our milky way galaxy, and through our solar system including its planetary migration and the moon acting as an orbital stabilizer. He then continues with a detailed discussion about Earth's interior beginning with its core.
Solid references throughout
A sample from chapter 7, "The Milky Way Galaxy Interior", page 101:
"Astronomers would say our galaxy has aged well, thanks in part to its mass and to the small fraction of its mass attributable to stars. For any star within a galaxy to contain enough carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, iron, thorium, and uranium to make the existence of advanced life possible within its planetary system, at least two generations of stars must form, burn, and explode to enrich the gas clouds that form the next generation of stars.
Galaxies more massive than the MWG form stars early and aggressively, quickly exhausting their gas supply. Consequently, star formation ends before an adequate supply of the life-essential elements can be built up. Advanced life also needs elements as heavy as uranium and thorium. Only if uranium and thorium are extraordinarily abundant on a planet can both plate tectonics and a protective magnetosphere be sustained for a long time.
Galaxies less massive than the MWG form their stars so late and at such a slow rate that not enough of the heavier elements, such as iron, copper, zinc, thorium, and uranium, are manufactured. Only in a galaxy like the MWG does star formation begin soon enough and last long enough to produce all the elements essential for advanced life. "
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