Earth's evolving systems : the history of planet Earth / Ronald Martin, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Edition: Second editionDescription: xxii, 615 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:- 9781284108293
- 1284108295
- 551.7 23 MAR
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551.635 KEL Satellite Meterology / | 551.635 ZHA Weather radar polarimetry / | 551.7 BRO Principles of stratigraphy / | 551.7 MAR Earth's evolving systems : | 551.701 GOP Principles of radiometric dating / | 551.70954 KUM Fundamentals of Historical Geology and Stratigraphy of India / | 551.79 SIN Quaternary studies in the Manipur Valley / |
Introduction: investigating earth's systems -- Plate tectonics -- Earth systems: processes and interactions -- Sedimentary rocks, sedimentary environments, and fossils -- Evolution and extinction -- Geologic time and stratigraphy -- An extraordinary beginning: Hadean and Archean -- Origins of life -- The Proterozoic: life becomes a geologic force -- Life's "big bang": the origins and early diversification of multicellular animals -- The early-to-middle Paleozoic world -- Late Paleozoic world -- Mesozoic era -- The Cenozoic era: the Paleogene period -- The Cenozoic era: the Neogene era -- Rapid climate change during the Holocene -- The Anthropocene: humans as an environmental force.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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