Interpreting earth history : a manual in historical geology [Eighth edition.] 9781478611455, 1478611456

Table of contents :
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Exercise 1: Relative Dating and Unconformities: Establishing Sequences of Events
Introduction
Principles of Relative Dating
Unconformities in the Rock Record
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Exercise 2: Radiometric Ages: Establishing the Absolute Ages of Geological Events
Modes of Decay
Limitations to Radiometric Age Determination
The Radioactive Decay Law
Procedure
Determining the Absolute Age of the Carboniferous–Permian System Boundary
Radiometric Ages on the Web
Conodont Data
Radiogenic Isotope Data
Exercise 3: Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks
Introduction
Clastic and Chemical Sedimentary Rocks
Describing Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Types of Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Classification of Sandstones
Describing Carbonate Rocks
Composition of Carbonate Rocks
Classification of Carbonate Rocks
Evaporites
Procedure
Exercise 4: Depositional Environments
Depositional Environments
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Procedure: Part D
Procedure: Part E
Procedure: Part F
Exercise 5: Stratigraphy: Organizing the Rock and Fossil Record
Introduction
Lithostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Chronostratigraphy
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Procedure: Part D
Procedure: Part E
Procedure: Part F
Exercise 6: Physical Correlation
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Exercise 7: Facies Relationships and Sea-Level Change
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Exercise 8: Fossils and Fossilization
Major Invertebrate Fossil Groups
Protozoans
Archeocyatha
Porifera
Phylum Cnidaria
Phylum Bryozoa
Brachiopods
Phylum Mollusca
Arthropods
Echinoderms
Graptolites
Conodonts
Procedure
Exercise 9: Evidence of Evolution
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Exercise 10: Patterns of Evolution
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Exercise 11: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Procedure: Part D
Procedure: Part E
Procedure: Part F
Exercise 12: Index Fossils and Depositional Sequences
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Procedure: Part D
Procedure: Part E
Procedure: Part F
Exercise 13: Interpretation of Geological Maps
Introduction
Map Interpretation
Tracing Planar Features across Topography
Constructing a Geological Cross Section
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Procedure: Part D
Exercise 14: Canadian Shield and Stable Platform
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Exercise 15: Paleozoic Orogenies of Ancestral North America
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Procedure: Part D
Exercise 16: Cordilleran Orogeny
The Cordilleran Orogeny
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Procedure: Part C
Procedure: Part D
Procedure: Part E
Procedure: Part F
Exercise 17: Phanerozoic Geology of North America: A Summary of Major Depositional and Tectonic Events
Procedure
Exercise 18: Cenozoic Geology
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Exercise 19: Pleistocene Glaciation
Procedure: Part A
Procedure: Part B
Exercise 20: Hominin Fossils
Procedure
References