Author | Dott, Robert H., 1929- |
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Title | Evolution of the earth / Robert H. Dott, Jr., Roger Lyman Batten |
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Imprint |
New York : McGraw-Hill, c1988 |
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Edition |
4th ed |
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Descript |
xvii, 643, [40] p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm |
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CONTENT
Time and terrestrial change -- Relative geologic time scale and modern concepts of stratigraphy -- Numerical dating of the earth -- Mountain building and drifting continents -- Deep-sea floor and plate tectnics -- Early life and its patterns -- Organic evolution -- Earliest Paleozoic history -- Later Ordovician -- Middle Paleozoic -- Pangea -- Mesozoic era -- Cenozoic history -- Pleistocene glaciation and the advent of mankind -- Best of all possible worlds?
SUBJECT
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Historical geology
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Central Library (4th Floor) | 551.7 D725E 1988 |
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