TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prothero, Donald R.
AU  - Dott, Robert H.
TI  - Evolution of the earth
SN  - 9780070164598 [paperback]
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Dubuque, IA
PB  - McGraw- Hill
KW  - Historical geology
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - 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?
ER  -