The Key to Earth History An Introduction to Stratigraphy

Textbook

By: Peter Doyle, Matthew R Bennett and Alistair N Baxter

288 pages, B/w photos, illus, tabs, maps

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Click to have a closer look

Select version

ISBN: 9780471492153 Edition: 2 Paperback Apr 2001 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
£65.95
#118153
ISBN: 9780471492160 Edition: 2 Hardback Apr 2001 Out of Print #118155

Selected version: £65.95

About this book Contents Customer reviews

Images Additional images

About this book

Examines the basic stratigraphical methods used to establish, date and interpret sequences of rocks as the products of a series of events in the Earth's history. Also presents the results of these methods which allow geologists to build up a record of the way in which the Earth's global environment has changed through geological time.

Preface. Illustrations. Introduction: What is Stratigraphy? PRINCIPLES. Uniformitarianism or Actualism. Establishing the Sequence of Events. Geological Time. Interpreting the Stratigraphical Record. The Evolution and Closure of Sedimentary Basins: The Role of Plate Tectonics. The Stratigraphical Tool Kit: Case Studies. Summary of Part One: The Stratigraphical Tool Kit. THE PATTERN OF EARTH HISTORY. Introduction to Part Two. The Stratigraphical Record and Global Rhythm. The North Atlantic Region: A Journey Through Time. The Precambrian: Peering into Deep Time. Pangaea: Birth of a Giant. Pangaea and the Opening of the Atlantic. Summary of Part Two: The Pattern of Earth History. Lexicon of Stratigraphical Terms. Index.