01526nam a2200229Ia 4500 0 0 ddc 0 0 124586 LDD LDD 0 551.7 R514I-8 107934 2018-11-01 3745.03 2018-11-01 BK 124587 124587 LDD 20200110164415.0 181029s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9781478611455 IGNOU Library 23 551.7 R514I-8 Ritter, Scott author 10542 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. Historical geology. 2788 16219 12-09-2017 25638 28-09-2017 F OP GEO Discount-20 Reqst by : Meenal Mishra ddc BK