a manual in historical geology Ritter, Scott creator author text xx Long Grove, Illinois Waveland Press, Inc. 2015 9999 monographic und

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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. Scott Ritter and Morris Petersen Historical geology 551.7 R514I-8 9781478611455 181029 20200110164415.0