Interpreting Earth History: A Manual in Historical Geology, Ninth Edition

Title Page
Contents
Preface
Exercise 1: Relative Dating and Unconformities: Establishing Sequences of Events
Exercise 2: Radiometric Ages: Establishing the Absolute Ages of Geological Events
Exercise 3: Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks
Exercise 4: Depositional Environments
Exercise 5: Stratigraphy: Organizing the Rock and Fossil Record
Exercise 6: Physical Correlation
Exercise 7: Facies Relationships and Sea-Level Change
Exercise 8: Fossils and Fossilization
Exercise 9: Evidence of Evolution
Exercise 10: Patterns of Evolution
Exercise 11: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Exercise 12: Index Fossils and Depositional Sequences
Exercise 13: Interpretation of Geological Maps
Exercise 14: Canadian Shield and Stable Platform
Exercise 15: Paleozoic Orogenies of Ancestral North America
Exercise 16: Climate Change and the Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Evidence and Effects of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Exercise 17: Cordilleran Orogeny
Exercise 18: Phanerozoic Geology of North America: A Summary of Major Depositional and Tectonic Events
Exercise 19: Cenozoic Geology
Exercise 20: Pleistocene Glaciation
Exercise 21: Hominin Fossils
References