Earth System History
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Beschreibung
Earth System History remains the only text for the historical geology module written from a truly integrated earth systems perspective, combining the physical and biological history of Earth. The thoroughly updated new edition includes new coverage on mass extinctions and climate change, plus improved organization based on the geologic timescale.
- Visual Overview Exercises provide students with a closer view of the chapter opening visual overviews, and ask related questions
- Chapter Objectives reiterate what students should be able to do after reading a chapter
- Updated Organization - To better reflect the Geologic Time Scale, the book now covers the Neogene Age before the Quaternary Age
- Updated Art Program - This edition's visual program offers over 100 new graphics and photos
- Interactive Timeline of Earth and Life Through Time - trace important aspects of Earth or its biota through its entire history and demonstrates how these topics are interrelated, underscoring important connections.
- Interactive Exercises, Flashcards, and Animations help students review the concepts
Autor*in
Steven M. Stanley
Themen in »Earth System History«
Archean Cambrian climate change Cretaceous environment evolution historical geology history of earth Holocene neogene Paleogene Paleozoic plate tectonics Proterozoic sediment