Interpreting earth history : a manual in historical geology / Scott Ritter and Morris Petersen

By:

Ritter, Scott [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., 2015.Description: vii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 28 cmISBN:

9781478611455

Subject(s):

Historical geology

DDC classification:

23 551.7 R514I-8

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Library and Documentation Division	551.7 R514I-8 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		107934

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.

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