Historical geology evolution of earth and life through time

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wicander, Reed (Author), Monroe, James S. (Author)
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts Cengage Learning [2016]
Edition:Eight edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The dynamic and evolving Earth
  • Minerals and rocks
  • Plate tectonics: unifying theory
  • Geologic time: concepts and principles
  • Rocks, fossils and time: making sense of geologic record
  • Sedimentary rocks: the archives of earth history
  • Evolution: the theory and its supporting evidence
  • Precambrian earth and life history: the Hadean and the Archean Eon
  • Precambrian Earth and Life history: the Proterozoic Eon
  • Early Paleozoic earth history
  • Late Paleozoic earth history
  • Paleozoic life history: invertebrates
  • Paleozoic life history: Vertebrates and plants
  • Mesozoic Earth history
  • Life of Mesozoic era
  • Cenozoic earth history: the Paleogene and Neogene periods
  • Cenozoic Earth history: the Quaternary period
  • Life of Cenozoic era
  • Primate and human evolution
  • Epilogue
  • English-metric conversion chart
  • Classification of organisms
  • Mineral identification
  • A refresher on structural geology.