Laboratory Studies in Earth History

Name: Laboratory Studies in Earth History
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ISBN: 9780073050720

ISBN-10: 0073050725

ISBN-13: 9780073050720

Edition: 9th 2008

Authors: Harold L. Levin, Michael S. Smith

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Book details

List price: $123.33
Edition: 9th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 9/25/2007
Binding: Comb Bound
Pages: 288
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Michael S. Smith is an officer in the Marine Corps currently stationed in Italy.




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



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