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Earth system history / Steven M. Stanley.
LIBRA QE28.3 .S735 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanley, Steven M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical geology.
- Physical geology.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 567 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), color portrait ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. H. Freeman, 2005.
- Contents:
- Part I Principles
- 1 Earth as a System
- 2 Rock-Forming Minerals and Rocks
- 3 The Diversity of Life
- 4 Environments and Life
- 5 Sedimentary Environments
- 6 Correlation and Dating of the Rock Record
- 7 Evolution and the Fossil Record
- 8 The Theory of Plate Tectonics
- 9 Continental Tectonics and Mountain Chains
- 10 Major Chemical Cycles
- Part II Changing Earth
- 11 The Archean Eon of Precambrian Time
- 12 The Proterozoic Eon of Precambrian Time
- 13 The Early Paleozoic World
- 14 The Middle Paleozoic World
- 15 The Late Paleozoic World
- 16 The Early Mesozoic Era
- 17 The Cretaceous World
- 18 The Paleogene World
- 19 The Neogene World
- 20 The Holocene.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0716739070
- 9780716739074
- OCLC:
- 62176565
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