000 01177nam a2200169Ia 4500
020 _a1429205202
082 _a551.7
_bSTA
100 _aStanley, Steven M.
245 _aEarth system history. Ed. by Penelope Hull
250 _aEd.3
260 _aSan Francisco,New York etc
_bW. H. Freeman & Co.
_c2009
300 _axxi,551p.
500 _aCONTENTS 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
890 _aUnited Kingdom
891 _aSP/IAPM
999 _c8647
_d8647