Earth History: Stories from our Geologic Past
Books
Overview
Overview
abstract
1. The Grand Canyon - Reading the Rocks
2. The Philosophies of Geology
3. The origin of the universe, the assembly of our solar system and early Earth history (Hadean and Archean)
4. The Age of Earth
5. Plate tectonics, our unifying concept
6. Evolution
7. The Origin of Life and our Early Atmosphere (Archean to Proterozoic)
8. Snowball Earth (Neoproterozoic).
9. Ediacaran experimentation, the Cambrian Explosion, and the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic)
10. Iapetus and Pangea: The search for the lost ocean and the assembly of a Paleozoic Supercontinent (Paleozoic tectonics)
11. The greening of Earth, climate change, and the great dying (Late Paleozoic)
12. Age of Dinosaurs (Mesozoic)
13. The Cretaceous Extinction
14. Tectonics of western North America in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic
15. The Indo-Asian collision (Cenozoic)
16. The Messinian Crisis - The Great Drying of the Mediterranean Sea (Late Cenozoic)
17. Out of Africa – The Story of Humans (Late Cenozoic)
18. Ice Ages and Sea Level (Pleistocence)
19. The effects of humans (Holocene and Anthropocene )
