Laboratory Studies in Earth History
ISBN: 9780073050720 | 0073050725
Edition: 9thFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Pub. Date: 9/25/2007
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Utilizing actual case studies and field photographs, this successful lab manual covers the full spectrum of historical geology sediments, plate tectonics, paleontology, and petrology in flexible, self-contained units. This manual has been developed for use in both non-majors and combined courses in historical geology. The exercises emphasize the principles and methods by which geologists discover the origins and changing nature of our planet.These exercises or "studies" will help students understand how ancient conditions can be read from rocks... MORE
| Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks | |
| Textural Clues to the History of Sediment | |
| Sedimentary Rocks under the Microscope | |
| Ancient Sedimentary Environments | |
| Tectonic Settings | |
| Sea-Floor Spreading and Plate Tectonics | |
| Age Relations and Unconformity | |
| Rock Units and Time-Rock Units | |
| The Advance and Retreat of Ancient Shorelines | ... MORE |
| Fossils and Their Living Relatives: Protists, Sponges, Corals, Bryozoans, and Brachiopods | |
| Fossils and Their Living Relatives: Mollusks, Arthropods, Echinoderms, Graptolites, and Plants | |
| Fossil Indicators of Age, Environment, and Correlation | |
| A Brief Survey of the Vertebrates | |
| Geologic Maps and Geologic Structures | |
| Canadian Shield and Basement Rocks of North America | |
| Mountain Belts of North America | |
| The Interior Plains and Plateaus | |
| Identification of Minerals | |
| Igneous Rocks | |
| Metamorphic Rocks | |
| List of Tables | |
| List of Colorplates | |
| List of Plates | |
| Preface | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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