Evolution of the Earth
ISBN: 9780072826845 | 0072826843
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Pub. Date: 9/28/2009
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Evolution of the Earth reveals the logical framework of geology, shows relations of the science to the totality of human knowledge, and gives some idea of what it is to be a participant in the discipline. In keeping with the preference for a "How do we know?" rather than "What do we know?" approach, the authors stress what assumptions are made by earth historians, what kinds of evidence (and tools for gathering that evidence), and what processes of reasoning and limitations of hypotheses are involved in reconstructing and interpreting the past.... MORE
| Preface | |
| About the Authors | |
| Time and Terrestrial Change | |
| Floods, Fossils, and Heresies | |
| Evolution | |
| The Relative Geologic Time Scale and Modern Concepts of Stratigraphy | |
| The Numerical Dating of the Earth | |
| The Origin and Early Evolution of the Earth | |
| Mountain Building and Drifting Continents | |
| Precambrian Histor... MORE | |
| Early Life and Its Patterns | |
| Earliest Paleozoic History: The Sauk Sequence-An Introduction to Cratons and Epeiric Seas | |
| The Later Ordovician: Further Studies of Plate Tectonics and the Paleogeography of Orogenic Belts | |
| The Middle Paleozoic: Time of Reefs, Salt, and Forests | |
| Late Paleozoic History: A Tectonic Climax and Retreat of the Sea | |
| The Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles and Continental Breakup | |
| Cenozoic History: Threshold of the Present | |
| Pleistocene Glaciation and the Advent of Humanity | |
| The Best of All Possible Worlds? | |
| The Classification and Relationships of Living Organisms | |
| English Equivalents of Metric Measures | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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