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Designed for a new generation of readers, Stanley's Earth System History is a reforging of his Exploring Earth and Life Through Time. Adopting an earth system approach throughout, Earth System History shows students how Earth's ecosystem has developed over time and how events in the past... read more
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First Sentence edit
Earth system history is a story of epic proportions about changes in the physical and biological features of our planet over billions of years.
Table of Contents edit
Part I: Materials, Processes, and Principles
Chapter 1. Earth as a System
Chapter 2. Rock-Forming Minerals and Rocks
Chapter 3. The Diversity of Life
Chapter 4. Environments and Life
Chapter 5. Sedimentary Environments
Chapter 6. Correlation and Dating of the Rock Record
Chapter 7. Evolution and the Fossil Record
Chapter 8. The Theory of Plate Tectonics
Chapter 9. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Chains
Chapter 10. Major Chemical Cycles
Part II: The Story of Earth
Chapter 11. The Archean Eon of Precambrian Time
Chapter 12. The Proterozoic Eon of Precambrian Time
Chapter 13. The Early Paleozoic World
Chapter 14. The Middle Paleozoic World
Chapter 15. The Late Paleozoic World
Chapter 16. The Early Mesozoic Era
Chapter 17. The Cretaceous World
Chapter 18. The Paleogene World
Chapter 19. The Neogene World
Chapter 20. The Holocene
Authors & Contributors edit
- Steven M. Stanley (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 551.7
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Earth Sciences › Geology
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Ecology
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Meteorology
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Rivers
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Geology
- Books › Outdoors & Nature › Environment › Weather
- Books › Science › Nature & Ecology
- Books › Outdoors & Nature › Ecology
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