1. Relative Dating and Unconformities: Establishing Sequences of Events
2. Radiometric Ages: Establishing the Absolute Ages of Geological Events
3. Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks
4. Depositional Environments
5. Stratigraphy: Organizing the Rock and Fossil Record
6. Physical Correlation
7. Facies Relationships and Sea-Level Change
8. Fossils and Fossilization
9. Evidence of Evolution
10. Patterns of Evolution
11. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
12. Index Fossils and Depositional Sequences
13. Interpretation of Geological Maps
14. Canadian Shield and Stable Platform
15. Paleozoic Orogenies of Ancestral North America
16. Climate Change and the Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Evidence and Effects of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
17. Cordilleran Orogeny
18. Phanerozoic Geology of North America: A Summary of Major Depositional and Tectonic Events
19. Cenozoic Geology
20. Pleistocene Glaciation
21. Hominin Fossils
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Interpreting Earth History
A Manual in Historical Geology
Ninth Edition
Historical geology courses require clear, practical examinations of pertinent concepts and procedures. The authors of Interpreting Earth History provide full-color, stand-alone exercises that identify and augment the critical features that make the identification of geologic formations possible. The Ninth Edition continues a legacy of exceptional coverage, providing the flexibility and scope necessary to engage students with geological data from a variety of sources and scales to explain geological patterns. Students will become more proficient in their ability to see and recognize geological patterns as well as the compositional and textural attributes of rocks and fossils. This classroom-tested laboratory manual has been updated and now includes an exercise that addresses the concept of climate change from the perspective of deep time.