Earth History

Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. The Grand Canyon: reading the rocks; 2. The philosophies of geology: assumptions steer interpretations; 3. The origin of Earth: from the beginning of the universe to the early Earth; 4.The Age of Earth: historical versus modern dating approaches; 5. Plate tectonics: our unifying geological concept; 6. Evolution: natural selection and the organization of life; 7. The origin of life: our early atmosphere and the rise of early life; 8. Snowball Earth: a Neoproterozoic frozen planet; 9. An explosion of life: Ediacaran experimentation, the Cambrian explosion, and Ordovician biodiversity; 10. Iapetus and Pangea: the lost ocean and the assembly of a Paleozoic supercontinent; 11. Environmental change in the late Paleozoic: the greening of Earth, climate change, and the great dying; 12. The age of dinosaurs: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous world; 13. The Cretaceous extinction: the end of the age of dinosaurs; 14. Tectonics of western North America: a dynamic Cretaceous and Cenozoic landscape; 15. The Indo-Asian collision: the formation of the Himalayas; 16. The Messinian crisis: the great drying of the Mediterranean Sea; 17. Out of Africa: human evolution; 18. Ice ages and sea level: quaternary environmental change; 19. A human world: our impact in the Holocene; Glossary, Index.

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