Earth System History
Fourth Edition
Publication Date: July 07, 2017
Paperback ISBN: 9781319154028
Pages: 624
Historical geology from a widely trusted author team.
Part I Materials, Processes, and Principles.-
CHAPTER 1 Earth as a System
CHAPTER 2 Rock-Forming Minerals and Rocks
CHAPTER 3 The Diversity of Life
CHAPTER 4 Environments and Life
CHAPTER 5 Sedimentary Environments
CHAPTER 6 Correlation and Dating of the Rock Record
CHAPTER 7 Evolution and the Fossil Record
CHAPTER 8 The Theory of Plate Tectonics
CHAPTER 9 Continental Tectonics and Mountain Chains
CHAPTER 10 Major Geochemical CyclesPart II The Story of Earth
CHAPTER 11 The Hadean and Archean Eons of Precambrian Time
CHAPTER 12 The Proterozoic Eon of Precambrian Time
CHAPTER 13 The Early Paleozoic World
CHAPTER 14 The Middle Paleozoic World
CHAPTER 15 The Late Paleozoic World
CHAPTER 16 The Early Mesozoic Era
CHAPTER 17 The Cretaceous World
CHAPTER 18 The Paleogene World
CHAPTER 19 The Late Cenozoic World Before the Holocene
CHAPTER 20 The Retreat of Glaciers and the Holocene