The evolving earth

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The evolving earth

Donald R. Prothero

Oxford University Press, c2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Written by award-winning author Donald R. Prothero, The Evolving Earth provides a lively, engaging tour through 4.5 billion years of earth and life evolution. Completely up-to-date, the book focuses on the evidence for "How do we know what we know?"-explaining how geologists and paleontologists developed our knowledge about the ancient past-rather than focusing on memorization. While covering the conventional topics of earth history, The Evolving Earth also offers an in-depth discussion of the Big Bang theory and the origin of the universe and solar system; an entire chapter on human evolution; and coverage of topics like climate change, the Anthropocene, and possible future scenarios for the earth. Prothero explains topics in terms of the "human interest" stories of the people who made these discoveries, and how they came to understand key evidence about earth and life history. Featuring unique paleogeographic maps of particular time intervals, integrated with photographs of the actual outcrops on which the map reconstruction is based, the book also includes a full appendix-suitable for use in labs on fossils-providing background to the major groups of fossils.

目次

Part I: DECIPHERING THE EARTH Chapter 1. The Abyss of Time Chapter 2. Building Blocks: Minerals and Rocks Chapter 3. It's About Time! Dating Rocks Chapter 4. Stratigraphy Chapter 5. Plate Tectonics and Sedimentary Basins Chapter 6. Evolution Part II: EARTH AND LIFE HISTORY Chapter 7. Birth of the Earth Chapter 8. The Early Earth: The Precambrian Chapter 9. The Origin and Early Evolution of Life, (4.6-0.6 billion years ago) Chapter 10. The Early Paleozoic: Cambrian-Ordovician, 541-444 Ma Chapter 11. The Middle Paleozoic: Silurian and Devonian, 444-355 Ma Chapter 12. The Late Paleozoic: Carboniferous and Permian, 355-250 Ma Chapter 13. The Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, 250-66 Ma Chapter 14. The Cenozoic: Paleogene and Neogene Periods, 66-2.6 Ma Chapter 15. The Cenozoic: The Pleistocene, 2.6 Ma to 10,000 years ago Chapter 16. Human Evolution Chapter 17. The Cenozoic: The Holocene--And the Future, 10,000 years ago to the Future Appendix A: Biological Classification Appendix B: SI and Customary Units and Their Conversions

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