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.