A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of Science, Etc., and for the General Reader, Volume 2

Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert

John Wiley & sons, Incorporated, 1915 - Geology - 647 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER PAGE XVII MATTER AND ORGANISMS: 405
• EVOLUTION THE CONSTant Change of LIVING THINGS: 416
• FOSSILS THE GEOLOGISTS TIME MARKERS: 428
• THE GEOLOGICAL TIMETABLE: 440
• THE LANDS AND THEIR LIFE: 456
• OCEANS THEIR DEPOSITS AND THEIR LIFE: 470
• SEAS THEIR NATURE AND DEPOSITS: 486
• EVOLUTION OF THE STARS AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM: 498
• ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM UNDER THE PLANETESIMAL 1 HYPOTHESIS: 513
• PRIMORDIAL GEOLOGIC TIME: 527
• THE ARCHEOZOIC ERA: 538
• THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC SUBERA: 551
• THE LATE PROTEROZOIC SUBERA: 560
• THE PALEOZOIC ERA: 576
• XXXI CAMBRIAN TIME AND THE DOMINANCE OF THE TRILOBITES: 591
• CHAPTER PAGE: 598
• TRILOBITES: 604
• SHELLED ANIMALS: 609
• ORDOVICIAN TIME AND THE REIGN OF INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS: 623
• ANIMALS WITH RADIAL SYMMETRY: 643
• SILURIAN TIME AND THE FIRST AIRBREATHING ANIMALS: 659
• FISHES AND THE ANCESTORS OF VERTEBRATES: 678
• DEVONIAN TIME AND THE DOMINANCY OF THE FISHES: 695
• THE OLD RED AND THE PROPHECY OF VERTEBRATE DOMINANCE: 714
• CARBONIFEROUS OF OLDER GEOLOGISTS AND THE MISSISSIP PIAN PERIOD: 728
• PENNSYLVANIANPERMIAN PERIODS THE TIME OF GREATEST COAL MAKING: 741
• RISE OF THE LAND FLORAS: 762
• COAL AND ITS OCCURRENCE IN NATURE: 777
• THE EARLIEST LAND VERTEBRATES: 796
• THE TRIASSIC PERIOD: 811
• DINOSAURS THE RULERS OF THE MESOZOIC: 831
• THE JURASSIC PERIOD AND THE MANY KINDS OF REPTILES: 844
• AMMONITES AND BELEMNITES THE DOMINANT ANIMALS OF MESOZOIC SEAS: 863
• THE COMANCHIAN PERIOD THE TIME OF GIGANTIC SAUROPODA: 868
• CHALK AND ITS ORGANISMS: 885
• THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD AND THE LARAMIDE REVOLUTION: 889
• THE DAWN OF THE RECENT IN CENOZOIC TIME: 910
• THE EVOLUTION OF MAMMALS AND THE RISE OF MENTALITY: 927
• PLEISTOCENE TIME AND THE LAST GLACIAL CLIMATE: 943
• MANS PLACE IN NATURE: 960
• EARTH HISTORY IN RETROSPECT: 978
• APPENDIX B: 993
• INDEX: 999

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of Science, Etc., and for the General Reader, Volume 2; A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of Science, Etc., and for the General Reader, Louis Valentine Pirsson
• Authors: Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert
• Publisher: John Wiley & sons, Incorporated, 1915
• Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized: Oct 2, 2009
• Length: 647 pages