Dott, Robert H. 1929-
Evolution of the Earth / Robert H. Dott, Jr. and Donald R. Prothero. - Fifth edition - New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994. - xxv, 569 [various pages] : illustrations [some colored] and maps ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Chapter 1 Time and terrestrial change -- Chapter 2 Floods, fossils, and heresies: "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end?" -- Chapter 3 Evolution -- Chapter 4 The relative geologic time scale and modern concepts of stratigraphy --Chapter 5 The numerical dating of the earth -- Chapter 6 Origin and early evolution of the earth -- Chapter 7 Mountain building and drifting continents --Chapter 8 Cryptozoic history: an introduction to the origin of continental crust -- Chapter 9 Early life and its patterns -- Chapter 10 Earliest paleozoic history: the sauk sequence- an introduction to cratons and epeiric seas -- Chapter 11 The later ordovician: further studies of plate tectonics and the paleography of orogenic belts --Chapter 12 The middle paleozoic: time of reefs, salt, and forests -- Chapter 13 Late paleozoic history: a tectonic climax and retreat of the sea -- Chapter 14 The mesozoic era: age of reptiles and supercontinent breakup -- Chapter 15 Cenozoic history: threshold of the present -- Chapter 16 Pleistocene glaciation and the advent of humans -- Chapter 17 The best of all possible worlds?.
English
0070178038 [paperback]
93025849
Historical geology.
Evolution of the Earth / Robert H. Dott, Jr. and Donald R. Prothero. - Fifth edition - New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994. - xxv, 569 [various pages] : illustrations [some colored] and maps ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Chapter 1 Time and terrestrial change -- Chapter 2 Floods, fossils, and heresies: "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end?" -- Chapter 3 Evolution -- Chapter 4 The relative geologic time scale and modern concepts of stratigraphy --Chapter 5 The numerical dating of the earth -- Chapter 6 Origin and early evolution of the earth -- Chapter 7 Mountain building and drifting continents --Chapter 8 Cryptozoic history: an introduction to the origin of continental crust -- Chapter 9 Early life and its patterns -- Chapter 10 Earliest paleozoic history: the sauk sequence- an introduction to cratons and epeiric seas -- Chapter 11 The later ordovician: further studies of plate tectonics and the paleography of orogenic belts --Chapter 12 The middle paleozoic: time of reefs, salt, and forests -- Chapter 13 Late paleozoic history: a tectonic climax and retreat of the sea -- Chapter 14 The mesozoic era: age of reptiles and supercontinent breakup -- Chapter 15 Cenozoic history: threshold of the present -- Chapter 16 Pleistocene glaciation and the advent of humans -- Chapter 17 The best of all possible worlds?.
English
0070178038 [paperback]
93025849
Historical geology.