Earth's evolving systems : the history of planet Earth /

Martin, Ronald E.

Earth's evolving systems : the history of planet Earth / Ronald Martin, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. - Second edition. - NewYork Jones&Barlett 2018 - xxii, 615 pages : color illustrations ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Geodynamics

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