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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., [2015]Copyright date: Edition: Eighth editionDescription: vii, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1478611456
  • 9781478611455
Other title:
  • Manual in historical geology
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QE28.3 .R58 2015
Contents:
1. Relative dating and unconformities -- 2. Radiometric Ages -- 3. Analysis of sedimentary rocks -- 4. Depositional environments -- 5. Stratigraphy -- 6. Physical correlation -- 7. Facies relationships and sea-level change -- 8. Fossils and fossilization -- 9. Evidence of evolution -- 10. Patterns of evolution -- 11. Continental drift and plate techtonics -- 12. Index fossils and depositional sequences -- 13. Interpretation of geological maps -- 14. Canadian shied and stable platform -- 15. Paleozoic Orogenics of ancestral North America -- 16. Cordilleran Orogeny -- 17. Phanerozoic geology of North America -- 18. Cenozoic geology -- 19. Pleistocene glaciation -- 20. Hominin fossils.
Summary: "The Eighth Edition of Interpreting Earth History continues a legacy of authoritative coverage, providing the flexibility and scope necessary to engage students with geological data from a variety of sources and scales. The authors carefully review the subjects covered in current historical geology courses and have tailored each stand-alone assignment to offer a clear, straightforward examination of pertinent topics. The content of this classroom-tested laboratory manual has been expanded and enhanced to include exercises on the Precambrian history of the Canadian Shield as well as an understanding of the stratigraphic, structural, and depositional history of North America during the Phanerozoic Eon. Now in full color, students will become more proficient in their ability to see and recognize geological patterns as well as the compositional and textural attributes of rocks and fossils."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 291).

1. Relative dating and unconformities -- 2. Radiometric Ages -- 3. Analysis of sedimentary rocks -- 4. Depositional environments -- 5. Stratigraphy -- 6. Physical correlation -- 7. Facies relationships and sea-level change -- 8. Fossils and fossilization -- 9. Evidence of evolution -- 10. Patterns of evolution -- 11. Continental drift and plate techtonics -- 12. Index fossils and depositional sequences -- 13. Interpretation of geological maps -- 14. Canadian shied and stable platform -- 15. Paleozoic Orogenics of ancestral North America -- 16. Cordilleran Orogeny -- 17. Phanerozoic geology of North America -- 18. Cenozoic geology -- 19. Pleistocene glaciation -- 20. Hominin fossils.

"The Eighth Edition of Interpreting Earth History continues a legacy of authoritative coverage, providing the flexibility and scope necessary to engage students with geological data from a variety of sources and scales. The authors carefully review the subjects covered in current historical geology courses and have tailored each stand-alone assignment to offer a clear, straightforward examination of pertinent topics. The content of this classroom-tested laboratory manual has been expanded and enhanced to include exercises on the Precambrian history of the Canadian Shield as well as an understanding of the stratigraphic, structural, and depositional history of North America during the Phanerozoic Eon. Now in full color, students will become more proficient in their ability to see and recognize geological patterns as well as the compositional and textural attributes of rocks and fossils."--Publisher's website.

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