This introductory undergraduate textbook provides a conceptual approach to Earth History and Historical Geology by focusing on key events to explain fundamental geological concepts. Its engaging narrative style and full-colour illustrations offer a broad overview of Earth history to those with little or no previous knowledge of the geology.
This introductory undergraduate textbook provides a conceptual approach to Earth History and Historical Geology by focusing on key events to explain fundamental geological concepts. Its engaging narrative style and full-colour illustrations offer a broad overview of Earth history to those with little or no previous knowledge of the geology.
Peter Copeland is Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston, Texas. His expertise lies in thermochronology, geochemistry and continental tectonics, with a particular emphasis on the evolution of the continental crust. In recent years, his research has focused on the formation of the Rocky Mountains and Himalaya. From 2001-2004 he was co-editor of the Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. The Grand Canyon: reading the rocks 2. The philosophies of geology: assumptions steer interpretations 3. The origin of Earth: from the beginning of the universe to the early Earth 4.The Age of Earth: historical versus modern dating approaches 5. Plate tectonics: our unifying geological concept 6. Evolution: natural selection and the organization of life 7. The origin of life: our early atmosphere and the rise of early life 8. Snowball Earth: a Neoproterozoic frozen planet 9. An explosion of life: Ediacaran experimentation, the Cambrian explosion, and Ordovician biodiversity 10. Iapetus and Pangea: the lost ocean and the assembly of a Paleozoic supercontinent 11. Environmental change in the late Paleozoic: the greening of Earth, climate change, and the great dying 12. The age of dinosaurs: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous world 13. The Cretaceous extinction: the end of the age of dinosaurs 14. Tectonics of western North America: a dynamic Cretaceous and Cenozoic landscape 15. The Indo-Asian collision: the formation of the Himalayas 16. The Messinian crisis: the great drying of the Mediterranean Sea 17. Out of Africa: human evolution 18. Ice ages and sea level: quaternary environmental change 19. A human world: our impact in the Holocene Glossary, Index.
Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. The Grand Canyon: reading the rocks 2. The philosophies of geology: assumptions steer interpretations 3. The origin of Earth: from the beginning of the universe to the early Earth 4.The Age of Earth: historical versus modern dating approaches 5. Plate tectonics: our unifying geological concept 6. Evolution: natural selection and the organization of life 7. The origin of life: our early atmosphere and the rise of early life 8. Snowball Earth: a Neoproterozoic frozen planet 9. An explosion of life: Ediacaran experimentation, the Cambrian explosion, and Ordovician biodiversity 10. Iapetus and Pangea: the lost ocean and the assembly of a Paleozoic supercontinent 11. Environmental change in the late Paleozoic: the greening of Earth, climate change, and the great dying 12. The age of dinosaurs: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous world 13. The Cretaceous extinction: the end of the age of dinosaurs 14. Tectonics of western North America: a dynamic Cretaceous and Cenozoic landscape 15. The Indo-Asian collision: the formation of the Himalayas 16. The Messinian crisis: the great drying of the Mediterranean Sea 17. Out of Africa: human evolution 18. Ice ages and sea level: quaternary environmental change 19. A human world: our impact in the Holocene Glossary, Index.
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