Earth History: Stories from our Geologic Past
Books
Overview
Overview
abstract
1. 1. The Grand Canyon - Reading the Rocks
2. The Philosophies of Geology: Assumptions Steer Interpretation
3. The Origin of Earth: From the Beginning of the Universe to the Early Earth
4. The Age of Earth: Historical Versus Modern Dating Approaches
5. Plate tectonics: Our unifying concept
6. Evolution: Natural Selection and the Organization of Life
7. The Origin of Life, our Early Atmosphere and the Rise of Early Life
8. Snowball Earth: A Neoproterozoic Frozen Planet
9. An Explosion of Life: Ediacaran Experimentation, the Cambrian Explosion, and Ordovician Biodiversity
10. Iapetus and Pangea: The Lost Ocean and the assembly of a Paleozoic Supercontinent
11. Environmental Change in the Late Paleozoic: The Greening of Earth, Climate Change, and the Great Dying
12. The Age of Dinosaurs: The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous World
13. The Cretaceous Extinction: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs
14. Tectonics of Western North America: A Dynamic Cretaceous and Cenozoic Landscape
15. The Indo-Asian Collision: The Formation of the Himalayas
16. The Messinian Crisis - The Great Drying of the Mediterranean Sea
17. Out of Africa –Human Evolution
18. Ice Ages and Sea Level: Quaternary Environmental Change
19. A Human World: Our Impact in the Holocene
