| Description |
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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 |
| Notes |
Dott's name appears first on the previous ed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Historical geology.
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| Author |
Dott, Robert H., 1929-
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| LC no. |
2001030813 |
| ISBN |
0073661872 |
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