Evolution of the Earth

Name: Evolution of the Earth
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ISBN: 9780072826845

ISBN-10: 0072826843

ISBN-13: 9780072826845

Edition: 8th 2010

Authors: Donald R. Prothero, Robert H. Dott

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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.Each chapter begins with a list of highlights entitled "Major Concepts". Many chapters have a summary timeline that puts the entire sequence of…

Book details

List price: $158.99
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 11/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 8.75" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English



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 History An Introduction to the Origin of Continental Crust



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