Earth System History 4th Edition by Steven M. Stanley, ISBN-13: 978-1429255264
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- Publisher: W. H. Freeman; Revised edition (January 1, 2014)
- Language: English
- 617 pages (Large size: 83 MB)
- ISBN-10: 1429255269
- ISBN-13: 978-1429255264
For the introductory geology or physical geology course.
Understanding Earth offers both majors and non-majors rock solid content that originated with the ground-breaking text, Earth. In subsequent editions, the text has consistently met the needs of today’s students with exceptional content, currency, interactive learning features, and an overall focus of the role of geological science in our lives. Understanding Earth doesn’t merely present the concepts and processes of physical geology— the authors focus on how we know what we know. Students actively take part in the scientific process of discovery and learn through experience as they explore the impact of geology on their lives as citizens and future stewards of the planet. The new edition incorporates coverage of recent natural disasters (the 2011 tsunami), fracking and other natural resources issues, the latest developments in climate change, and key events such as the Mars mission and the arrest of geologists in Italy.
Table of Contents:
PART I
Materials, Processes, and Principles
CHAPTER 1
Earth as a System 1
CHAPTER 2
Rock-Forming Minerals and Rocks 25
CHAPTER 3
The Diversity of Life 49
CHAPTER 4
Environments and Life 79
CHAPTER 5
Sedimentary Environments 103
CHAPTER 6
Correlation and Dating of the
Rock Record 129
CHAPTER 7
Evolution and the Fossil Record 155
CHAPTER 8
The Theory of Plate Tectonics 183
CHAPTER 9
Continental Tectonics and
Mountain Chains 203
CHAPTER 10
Major Geochemical Cycles 223
PART II
The Story of Earth
CHAPTER 11
The Hadean and Archean Eons
of Precambrian Time 249
CHAPTER 12
The Proterozoic Eon of
Precambrian Time 275
CHAPTER 13
The Early Paleozoic World 301
CHAPTER 14
The Middle Paleozoic World 329
CHAPTER 15
The Late Paleozoic World 357
CHAPTER 16
The Early Mesozoic Era 389
CHAPTER 17
The Cretaceous World 421
CHAPTER 18
The Paleogene World 449
CHAPTER 19
The Late Cenozoic World Before
the Holocene 477
CHAPTER 20
The Retreat of Glaciers and
the Holocene 521
Chapter Summary/Review Questions 546
Appendix: Stratigraphic Stages 549
Glossary 553
Index 569
Steven M. Stanley is a research professor in Paleobiology at the University of Hawaii. His research includes such areas as functional morphology; macroevolution; effects of changing seawater chemistry on biomineralization, reef growth, and lime sediment production; and the role of climate change in mass extinctions. He received an A.B from Princeton University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. Before moving to the University of Hawaii he was on the faculty of the University of Rochester for two years and the faculty of Johns Hopkins University for thirty-six years.
Dr. Stanley has written three previous editions of” Earth System History “and a total of three editions of its predecessors, “Earth and Life Through Time” and “Exploring Earth and Life Through Time.” His other books include Principles of Paleontology (with David M. Raup), “Macroevolution: Pattern and Process,” “The New Evolutionary Timetable,” “Extinction” (nominated for an American Book Award), and “Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve.” He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous awards, including the Paleontological Society Medal, the James H. Shea Award of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (for books authored), the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Twenhofel Medal of the Society of the Society for Sedimentary Geology, and the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America.
Dr. Stanley has taught courses in Earth History, Paleontology, Paleoecology, Macroevolution, Marine Ecology, Biodiversity, and Darwin and Darwinism.
John Luczaj is a field geologist interested in sedimentology, geochemistry, and hydrogeology, specializing in diagenesis in sedimentary systems. He has conducted research on hydrothermal dolomitization, fluid-inclusions in minerals, groundwater geochemistry and aquifer recovery, geologic mapping, geomorphology, and Holocene cave deposits. One of his important contributions was the first successful dating of diagenetic dolomite using the U-Pb method.
He received a B.S. in geology from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in 1993, an M.S. in geology from the University of Kansas in 1995, and a Ph.D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University in 2000. He worked as a USGS-NAGT Summer Trainee at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in 1993, as a visiting assistant professor at Towson University (1999-2000) and Western Michigan University (2000-2002), and as an environmental consultant from 2002-2005 before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is currently chair of the Geoscience unit in the Department of Natural & Applied Sciences at UW-Green Bay. In conjunction with the Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, he completed a county-wide bedrock geologic mapping project in 2011.
Dr. Luczaj teaches courses in physical geology, historical geology, sedimentology & stratigraphy, glacial geology, regional field geology, and radioactivity. His current research focuses on the groundwater chemistry of confined aquifer systems in eastern Wisconsin, the diagenesis of sedimentary rocks, including petroleum reservoirs, and he has recently completed a review article on the geology of the Niagara escarpment in Wisconsin. He received the Vincent E. Nelson Award in 2001 from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for his work on hydrothermal dolomitization.
John Luczaj is a field geologist interested in sedimentology, geochemistry, and hydrogeology, specializing in diagenesis in sedimentary systems. He has conducted research on hydrothermal dolomitization, fluid-inclusions in minerals, groundwater geochemistry and aquifer recovery, geologic mapping, geomorphology, and Holocene cave deposits. One of his important contributions was the first successful dating of diagenetic dolomite using the U-Pb method.
He received a B.S. in geology from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in 1993, an M.S. in geology from the University of Kansas in 1995, and a Ph.D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University in 2000. He worked as a USGS-NAGT Summer Trainee at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in 1993, as a visiting assistant professor at Towson University (1999-2000) and Western Michigan University (2000-2002), and as an environmental consultant from 2002-2005 before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is currently chair of the Geoscience unit in the Department of Natural & Applied Sciences at UW-Green Bay. In conjunction with the Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, he completed a county-wide bedrock geologic mapping project in 2011.
Dr. Luczaj teaches courses in physical geology, historical geology, sedimentology & stratigraphy, glacial geology, regional field geology, and radioactivity. His current research focuses on the groundwater chemistry of confined aquifer systems in eastern Wisconsin, the diagenesis of sedimentary rocks, including petroleum reservoirs, and he has recently completed a review article on the geology of the Niagara escarpment in Wisconsin. He received the Vincent E. Nelson Award in 2001 from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for his work on hydrothermal dolomitization.
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