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Evolution of the Earth Donald Prothero

Evolution of the Earth By Donald Prothero

Evolution of the Earth by Donald Prothero


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Reveals the logical framework of geology. This book shows relations of the science to the totality of human knowledge, and gives some idea of what it is to be a participant in the discipline.

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Evolution of the Earth by Donald Prothero

Evolution of the Earth reveals the logical framework of geology, shows relations of the science to the totality of human knowledge, and gives some idea of what it is to be a participant in the discipline. In keeping with the preference for a How do we know? rather than What do we know? approach, the authors stress what assumptions are made by earth historians, what kinds of evidence (and tools for gathering that evidence), and what processes of reasoning and limitations of hypotheses are involved in reconstructing and interpreting the past.

Each chapter begins with a list of highlights entitled Major Concepts. Many chapters have a summary timeline that puts the entire sequence of events into a quick visual reference frame. The use of dioramas and reconstructions of extinct animals and plants has been greatly expanded, so that students can get a more vivid concept of typical life in any part of the geologic past. In many places, the authors have supplied a full page of color photos of classic fossils from each period to improve the visual recognition of the organisms that give life its distinctive history. The areas of hottest controversy, such as mass extinctions, dinosaur endothermy, the origin of life, and controversies over late Proterozoic tectonics and glaciation, have been given separate sections so that students can appreciate the different sides of the debates. (Electronic images are available on CD-ROM through your local McGraw-Hill Sales Representative.)

Table of Contents

1 Time and Terrestrial Change2 Floods, Fossils, and Heresies3 Evolution4 The Relative Geologic Time Scale and Modern Concepts of Stratigraphy5 The Numerical Dating of the Earth6 The Origin and Early Evolution of the Earth7 Mountain Building and Drifting Continents8 Cryptozoic History: An Introduction to the Origin of Continental Crust9 Early Life and Its Patterns10 Earliest Paleozoic History: The Sauk Sequence - An Introduction to Cratons and Epeiric Seas11 The Later Ordovician: Further Studies of Plate Tectonics and the Paleogeography of Orogenic Belts12 The Middle Paleozoic: Time of Reefs, Salt, and Forests13 Late Paleozoic History: A Tectonic Climax and Retreat of the Sea14 The Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles and Continental Breakup15 Cenozoic History: Threshold of the Present16 Pleistocene Glaciation and the Advent of Humanity17 The Best of all Possible Worlds?Appendix I The Classification and Relationships of Living OrganismsAppendix II English Equivalents of Metric Measures

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CIN0072528087G
9780072528084
0072528087
Evolution of the Earth by Donald Prothero
Used - Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20030816
576
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