Interpreting earth history :
Ritter, Scott
Interpreting earth history : a manual in historical geology / Scott Ritter and Morris Petersen - Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., 2015. - vii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Relative dating and unconformities: establishing sequences of events --
Radiometric ages: establishing the absolute ages of geological events --
Analysis of sedimentary rock --
Depositional environments --
Stratigraphy: organizing the rock and fossil record --
Physical correlation --
Facies relationships and sea-level change --
Fossils and fossilization --
Evidence of evolution --
Patterns of evolution --
Continental drift and plate tectonics --
Index fossils and depositional sequence --
Interpretation of geological maps --
Canadian shield, stable platform, and coastal plain --
Paleozoic orogenies of ancestral North America --
Cordilleran orogeny --
Cenozoic geology --
Pleistocene glaciation --
Hominid fossils.
9781478611455
Historical geology.
551.7 R514I-8
Interpreting earth history : a manual in historical geology / Scott Ritter and Morris Petersen - Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., 2015. - vii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Relative dating and unconformities: establishing sequences of events --
Radiometric ages: establishing the absolute ages of geological events --
Analysis of sedimentary rock --
Depositional environments --
Stratigraphy: organizing the rock and fossil record --
Physical correlation --
Facies relationships and sea-level change --
Fossils and fossilization --
Evidence of evolution --
Patterns of evolution --
Continental drift and plate tectonics --
Index fossils and depositional sequence --
Interpretation of geological maps --
Canadian shield, stable platform, and coastal plain --
Paleozoic orogenies of ancestral North America --
Cordilleran orogeny --
Cenozoic geology --
Pleistocene glaciation --
Hominid fossils.
9781478611455
Historical geology.
551.7 R514I-8