Evolution of the earth / Donald R. Prothero and Robert H. Dott, Jr.
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TextPublisher: Dubuque, IA : McGraw- Hill, c2010Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xxv, 518 pages : colored illustration, mapsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780070164598 [paperback]Subject(s): Historical geology -- Textbooks| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes index.
Contents: Chapter 1 Time and terrestrial change -- Chapter 2 Floods, fossils, and heresies -- 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 The origin and early evolution of the earth -- Chapter 7 Mountain building and drifting continents -- Chapter 8 Precambrian 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 crations and epeiric seas -- Chapter 11 The later ordovician: further studies of plate tectonics and the paleogeography of orogenic belts -- Chapter 12 The middle paleozoic: time of reefs, salts, and forests -- Chapter 13 Late paleozoic history: a tectonic climax and retreat of the sea -- Chapter 14 The mesozoic era: age of reptiles and continental breakup -- Chapter 15 Cenozoic history: threshold of the present -- Chapter 16 Pleistocene glaciation and the advent of humanity -- Chapter 17 The best of all possible worlds?.
Lauron, Rodello General Education General Education : Sociology
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