Earth system history

Author(s)

• Stanley, Steven M.

Bibliographic Information

Earth system history

Steven M. Stanley

W.H. Freeman, c1999

[New ed.]

Note

Previous ed.: 1993

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Using the earth system approach, Steven M. Stanley shows how Earth's ecosystem has developed over time, and how events in the past can help us deal with present and future changes.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Earth system history
• rocks - composition and structures
• the diversity of life
• environments and life
• sedimentary environments
• correlation and dating of the rock record
• evolution and the fossil record plate tectonics
• mountain building
• major chemical cycles
• the archean eon
• the proterozoic eon
• the palaeozoic world
• the middle palaeozoic world
• the late palaeozoic world
• the late palaeozoic world
• the early mesozoic world
• the cretaceous world
• the palaeogene world
• the neogene world
• the holocene.

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Details

• NCID: BA40620795
• ISBN:
  • 0716733773
  • 0716728826
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxiii, 615 p.
• Size: 28 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 551.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Historical geology
  • LCSH : Physical geology