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Main Authors: Stanley, Steven M. (Author), Luczaj, John A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.H. Freeman and Company, a Macmillan Higher Education Company, [2015]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Historical geology.
Physical geology.
Géologie historique.
Géologie physique.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Materials, processes, and principles.
  • Earth as a system
  • Rock-forming minerals and rocks
  • The diversity of life
  • Environments and life
  • Sedimentary environments
  • Correlation and dating of the rock record
  • Evolution and the fossil record
  • The theory of plate tectonics
  • Continental tectonics and mountain chains
  • Major geochemical cycles
  • Part II. The story of Earth.
  • The Hadean and Archean Eons of Precambrian time
  • The Proterozoic Eon of Precambrian time
  • The early Paleozoic world
  • The middle Paleozoic world
  • The late Paleozoic world
  • The early Mesozoic Era
  • The Cretaceous world
  • The Paleogene world
  • The late Cenozoic world before the Holocene
  • The retreat of glaciers and the Holocene.