Table of contents for Evolution of the earth / Donald R. Prothero, Robert H. Dott.


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 1 Time and Terrestrial Change
 2 Floods, Fossils, and Heresies: "No vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end?"
 3 Evolution
 4 The Relative Geologic Time Scale and Modern Concepts of Stratigraphy
 5 The Numerical Dating of the Earth
 6 Origin and Early Evolution of the Earth
 7 Mountain Building and Drifting Continents
 8 Cryptozoic History: An Introduction to the Origin of Continental Crust
 9 Early Life and its Patterns
 10 Earliest Paleozoic History: The Sauk Sequence - An Introduction to Cratons and Epeiric Seas
 11 The Later Ordovician: Further Studies of Plate Tectonics and the Paleogeography of Orogenic Belts
 12 The Middle Paleozoic: Time of Reefs, Salt, and Forests
 13 Late Paleozoic History: A Tectonic Climax and Retreat of the Sea
 14 The Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles and Continental Breakup
 15 Cenozoic History: Threshold of the Present
 16 Pleistocene Glaciation and the Advent of Humans
 17 The Best of all Possible Worlds?
 Appendix I The Classification and Relationships of Life
 Appendix II English Equivalents of Metric Measures



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Historical geology