Earth System History

Fourth Edition

Publication Date: July 07, 2017

Paperback ISBN: 9781319154028

Pages: 624

Historical geology from a widely trusted author team.

Steven Stanleys classic textbook, now co-authored with John Luczaj, remains a trusted textbook for any historical geology course written from a truly integrated earth systems perspective. This edition includes important new coverage on mass extinctions, climate change, and Proterozoic history, plus
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Part I Materials, Processes, and Principles.-

CHAPTER 1 Earth as a System

CHAPTER 2 Rock-Forming Minerals and Rocks

CHAPTER 3 The Diversity of Life

CHAPTER 4 Environments and Life

CHAPTER 5 Sedimentary Environments

CHAPTER 6 Correlation and Dating of the Rock Record

CHAPTER 7 Evolution and the Fossil Record

CHAPTER 8 The Theory of Plate Tectonics

CHAPTER 9 Continental Tectonics and Mountain Chains

CHAPTER 10 Major Geochemical CyclesPart II The Story of Earth

CHAPTER 11 The Hadean and Archean Eons of Precambrian Time

CHAPTER 12 The Proterozoic Eon of Precambrian Time

CHAPTER 13 The Early Paleozoic World

CHAPTER 14 The Middle Paleozoic World

CHAPTER 15 The Late Paleozoic World

CHAPTER 16 The Early Mesozoic Era

CHAPTER 17 The Cretaceous World

CHAPTER 18 The Paleogene World

CHAPTER 19 The Late Cenozoic World Before the Holocene

CHAPTER 20 The Retreat of Glaciers and the Holocene