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Earth's evolving systems : the history of planet Earth /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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NewYork
Jones&Barlett
2018
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| Ausgabe: | Second edition. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: investigating earth's systems
- Plate tectonics
- Earth systems: processes and interactions
- Sedimentary rocks, sedimentary environments, and fossils
- Evolution and extinction
- Geologic time and stratigraphy
- An extraordinary beginning: Hadean and Archean
- Origins of life
- The Proterozoic: life becomes a geologic force
- Life's "big bang": the origins and early diversification of multicellular animals
- The early-to-middle Paleozoic world
- Late Paleozoic world
- Mesozoic era
- The Cenozoic era: the Paleogene period
- The Cenozoic era: the Neogene era
- Rapid climate change during the Holocene
- The Anthropocene: humans as an environmental force.