TY - BOOK AU - Ritter, Scott TI - Interpreting earth history: a manual in historical geology SN - 9781478611455 U1 - 551.7 R514I-8 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Long Grove, Illinois PB - Waveland Press, Inc. KW - Historical geology N1 - 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 ER -