TY - BOOK AU - Stanley, Steven M. TI - Earth system history. Ed. by Penelope Hull SN - 1429205202 U1 - 551.7 PY - 2009/// CY - San Francisco,New York etc PB - W. H. Freeman & Co. N1 - CONTENTS PART 1 MATERIALS, PROCESSES, AND PRINCIPLES 1 EARTH AS A SYSTEM1 2 ROCK-FORMING MINERALS AND ROCKS 25 3 THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE 47 4 ENVIRONMENTS AND LIFE 75 5 SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS99 6 CORRELATION AND DATING OF THE ROCK RECORD125 7 EVOLUTION AND THE FOSSIL RECORD151 8 THE THEORY OF PLATE TECTONICS175 9 CONTINENTAL TECTONICS AND MOUNTAIN CHAINS195 10 MAJOR CHEMICAL CYCLES 215 PART 2 THE STORY OF EARTH 11 THE HADEAN AND ARCHEAN EONS OF PRECAMBRIAN TIME 239 12 THE PROTEROZOIC EON OF PRECAMBRIAN TIME 263 13 THE EARLY PALEOZOIC WORLD* 287 14 THE MIDDLE PALEOZOIC WORLD 315 15 THE LATE PALEOZOIC WORLD 341 16 THE EARLY MESOZOIC ERA 373 17 THE CRETACEOUS WORLD 403 18 THE PALEOGENE WORLD 429 19 THE NEOGENE WORLD 453 20 THEHOLOCENE 495 ER -