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Introduction -- The Archean -- Major Archean lithollogies -- Hypothese on Archean tectonics -- The proterozoic -- North Atlantic Craton -- Circum-superior mobile belt -- Churchill Province, III: Western Churchill -- Bear Province -- Grenville Orogen -- Proterozoic of the Unites States Craton -- Early history of the Cordilleran Continental margin -- Early history of the Appalachian Continental margin -- The fossil record of early life -- The Sauk sequence: Ediacarian-lower Ordovician -- Conditions at the beginning of the Phanerozoic -- Epeiric seas and cratonic sequences -- A digression, the Ediacarian: do you believe rocks or fossils? -- Phanerozoic Sauk sedimentation -- Earliest animals with skeletons: first recorded taxonomic radiation -- The Tippecanoe sequence: Middle Ordovician-lower Devonian -- Tippecanoe Cratonic sedimentation -- The Appalachian Continental margin -- The Innuitian Continental margin -- Continental margin and magmatic arc assemblages of the Cordillera -- Filling the niches: Tippecanoe life -- The Kaskaskia sequence: Middle Devonian-upper Mississipian -- The Zuni dequence: Middle Jurassic-upper cretaceous -- The Tejas sequence: Tertiary-recent.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-688) and index.