Earth System HistoryMacmillan, 2005 - 567 sayfa Designed for a new generation of readers, Stanley's Earth System History is a reforging of his Exploring Earth and Life Through Time. Adopting an earth system approach throughout, Earth System History shows students how Earth's ecosystem has developed over time and how events in the past provide a perspective for dealing with present and future changes. Clear and concise, the new Second Edition of this introduction to historical geology is perfect for one-term non-majors courses and contains lots of new content and improved visuals. |
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Materials Processes and Principles | 1 |
Earth as a System | 6 |
Global Dating of the Rock Record | 11 |
RockForming Minerals and Rocks | 27 |
The Properties of Minerals | 33 |
Types of Rocks | 36 |
Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 47 |
Identifying Clades and Their Relationships | 57 |
The Origin of the Solar System | 253 |
Evidence of Archean Life | 262 |
Atmospheric Oxygen | 270 |
The Proterozoic Eon of Precambrian Time | 278 |
Atmospheric Oxygen | 282 |
Earth System Shift 122 Was There | 288 |
The Assembly and Breakup of Neoproterozoic | 294 |
The Early Paleozoic World | 299 |
The Diversity of Life | 60 |
A Kingdom of Decomposers | 64 |
Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 76 |
Environments and Life | 79 |
The Terrestrial Realm | 87 |
The Marine Realm | 94 |
Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 101 |
Sedimentary Environments | 103 |
Marginal Marine and OpenShelf | 114 |
DeepSea Environments | 124 |
Correlation and Dating of the Rock Record | 129 |
Methods of Stratigraphic | 130 |
Earths Absolute Age | 139 |
Event Stratigraphy | 145 |
Evolution and the Fossil Record | 153 |
Genes DNA and Chromosomes | 160 |
Extinction | 166 |
The Theory of Plate Tectonics | 177 |
The Rise of Plate Tectonics | 185 |
Plate Movements | 192 |
Continental Tectonics and Mountain Chains | 199 |
Mountain Building | 207 |
Suturing of Small Landmasses | 215 |
Major Chemical Cycles | 221 |
Carbon burial enlarges the atmospheres oxygen | 231 |
Oxygen Isotopes Climate and | 238 |
The Story of Earth | 245 |
The Archean Eon of Precambrian Time | 247 |
273 | 304 |
The Middle Paleozoic World | 327 |
Ordovician Life 309 Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 352 |
The Late Paleozoic World | 355 |
Paleogeography of the Cambrian World 312 Aragonitic reef builders flourished in aragonite | 360 |
in Mass Extinction 316 Earth System Shift 151 Weakened | 366 |
Middle Paleozoic 328 | 374 |
Landscapes and Open the Way for Reefs formed in the Delaware Basin of western | 381 |
The Early Mesozoic Era | 387 |
Life on Land | 394 |
The Paleogeography of the Early | 404 |
Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 415 |
The Cretaceous World | 417 |
Benthic life was also modernized | 421 |
Paleogeography of the Cretaceous World | 428 |
The Paleogene World | 445 |
Early Paleogene birds were large | 453 |
Regional Events of Paleogene Time | 460 |
Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 467 |
The Neogene World | 469 |
The Modern Ice Age of the Northern | 477 |
Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 512 |
The Holocene | 515 |
The First Americans | 520 |
Sea Level | 529 |
Chapter SummaryReview Questions | 538 |
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abundant accumulated algae ancient animals Archean areas asthenosphere atmosphere atoms beds belt body of rock Cambrian carbon Carboniferous Cenozoic changes chemical climates continental crust continents cooling corals Cretaceous cycle deep-sea deposits Devonian dinosaurs early Earth System Earth's history Earth's surface environments Eocene erosion evaporites evolution evolutionary evolved faults Figure foreland basin forests fossil record geologic geologists glacial glaciers global Gondwanaland grains groups igneous rocks interval isotopes Jurassic kilometers kinds lagoon lakes land Late layers limestone lithosphere living magma mammals mantle marine mass extinction Mesozoic metamorphic rocks mid-ocean ridges million years ago minerals modern North America oceanic crust Ordovician organisms orogeny oxygen Paleogene Paleozoic Permian Phanerozoic plants plate tectonic produced reef regions relatively reservoir rift rivers sand sea level seafloor sedimentary rocks sediments Shale Silurian skeletons South species spread strata structure subduction zone taxa temperature terrestrial therapsids Triassic vertebrate volcanic warm weathering