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Introduction to Historical Geology
Historical geology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth. Historical geology examines the vastness of geologic time, measured in billions of years, and investigates changes in the Earth, gradual and sudden, over this deep time. It focuses on geological processes, such as plate tectonics, that have changed the Earth's surface and subsurface over time and the use of methods to tell the sequence of these events.
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- Chris Johnson, Callan Bentley, Karla Panchuk, et al.
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Mục lục· 67 mục
- 01: What is Historical Geology
- 1.01: Stories from Stone
- 1.02: Sequences of Strata
- 1.03: Fossil Vocabulary
- 1.04: Magma Metamorphism and Mountains
- 1.05: Earths Story is Your Story
- 02: Planet Earth - An Introduction
- 2.01: Origin of the Universe- From Big Bang to Planet Earth
- 2.02: Geologic Time
- 2.03: Key Events in Earth History
- 2.04: Earth Systems
- 03: Minerals
- 3.01: Atoms
- 3.02: Bonding and Lattices
- 3.03: Mineral Groups
- 3.04: Silicate Minerals
- 3.05: Mineral Properties
- 3.06: Summary Key Term Check
- 04: The Rock Cycle
- 4.01: What Is A Rock
- 4.02: The Rock Cycle
- 4.03: Igneous Rocks
- 4.04: Sedimentary Rocks
- 4.05: Metamorphic Rocks
- 05: Plate Tectonics
- 5.01: Alfred Wegeners Continental Drift Hypothesis
- 5.02: Development of Plate Tectonic Theory
- 5.03: Layers of Earth
- 5.04: Plate Boundaries
- 06: Geologic Environments and Structures
- 6.01: Sedimentary Rocks Weathering and Erosion
- 6.02: Sedimentary Environments
- 6.03: Plastic Deformation
- 6.04: Deformation- Stress and Strain
- 6.05: Brittle Deformation
- 07: Geologic and Topographic Mapping
- 7.01: Basic Map Features
- 7.02: Latitude and Longitude
- 7.03: Contour Lines
- 7.04: Geologic Map Units
- 7.05: Mapping Geologic Structures
- 08: Taphonomy - The Science of Death and Decay
- 8.01: What Is A Fossil
- 8.02: Modes of Fossil Preservation
- 8.03: Trace Fossils- Studies in Scurrying Scraping and Slithering
- 09: Geologic Time and Relative Dating
- 9.01: Lateral Continuity Superposition and Inclusions
- 9.02: Original Horizontality and Cross-Cutting Relationships
- 9.03: Relative Dating and Unconformities
- 9.04: Fossils in Sedimentary Sequences
- 9.05: Some Final Practice
- 10: The PreCambrian
- 10.01: The Hadean Eon (4600-4000 Ma)
- 10.02: The Archean Eon (4000-2500 Ma)
- 10.03: The Proterozoic Eon (2500-541 Ma)
- 11: The Paleozoic Era
- 11.01: Paleozoic Tectonics and Paleogeography
- 11.02: Paleozoic Evolution
- 11.03: The Permian Mass Extinction
- 12: The Mesozoic Era
- 12.01: Mesozoic Tectonics and Paleogeography
- 12.02: Mesozoic Evolution
- 12.03: The K-T Extinction
- 13: The Cenozoic Era
- 13.01: Cenozoic Tectonics and Paleogeography
- 13.02: Cenozoic Evolution
- 13.03: Origins of Humans and the Anthropocene