Peter Copeland: Earth History | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781108724159 | Earth History | Stories of Our Geological Past | Copeland (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

"This introductory undergraduate textbook provides a conceptual approach to Earth History and Historical Geology by focusing on key events to explain fundamental geological concepts. Its engaging narrative style and full-colour illustrations offer a broad overview of Earth history to those with little or no previous knowledge of the geology"--

Über den Autor

Peter Copeland is Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston, Texas. His expertise lies in thermochronology, geochemistry and continental tectonics, with a particular emphasis on the evolution of the continental crust. In recent years, his research has focused on the formation of the Rocky Mountains and Himalaya. From 2001-2004 he was co-editor of the Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. The Grand Canyon: reading the rocks; 2. The philosophies of geology: assumptions steer interpretations; 3. The origin of Earth: from the beginning of the universe to the early Earth; [...] Age of Earth: historical versus modern dating approaches; 5. Plate tectonics: our unifying geological concept; 6. Evolution: natural selection and the organization of life; 7. The origin of life: our early atmosphere and the rise of early life; 8. Snowball Earth: a Neoproterozoic frozen planet; 9. An explosion of life: Ediacaran experimentation, the Cambrian explosion, and Ordovician biodiversity; 10. Iapetus and Pangea: the lost ocean and the assembly of a Paleozoic supercontinent; 11. Environmental change in the late Paleozoic: the greening of Earth, climate change, and the great dying; 12. The age of dinosaurs: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous world; 13. The Cretaceous extinction: the end of the age of dinosaurs; 14. Tectonics of western North America: a dynamic Cretaceous and Cenozoic landscape; 15. The Indo-Asian collision: the formation of the Himalayas; 16. The Messinian crisis: the great drying of the Mediterranean Sea; 17. Out of Africa: human evolution; 18. Ice ages and sea level: quaternary environmental change; 19. A human world: our impact in the Holocene; Glossary, Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Geologie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781108724159
ISBN-10:	1108724159
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Copeland, Peter Bhattacharya, Janok P.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	Worked examples or Exercises
Maße:	217 x 280 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Copeland (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2025
Gewicht:	1,164 kg