Each chapter begins with a list of highlights entitled "Major Concepts". Many chapters have a summary timeline that puts the entire sequence of events into a quick visual reference frame. The use of dioramas and reconstructions of extinct animals and plants has been greatly expanded, so that students can get a more vivid concept of typical life in any part of the geologic past. In many places, the authors have supplied a full page of color photos of classic fossils from each period to improve the visual recognition of the organisms that give life its distinctive history. The areas of hottest controversy, such as mass extinctions, dinosaur endothermy, the origin of life, and controversies over late Proterozoic tectonics and glaciation, have been given separate sections so that students can appreciate the different sides of the debates. (Electronic images are available on CD-ROM through your local McGraw-Hill Sales Representative.)
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1 Time and Terrestrial Change
2 Floods, Fossils, and Heresies
3 Evolution
4 The Relative Geologic Time Scale and Modern Concepts of Stratigraphy
5 The Numerical Dating of the Earth
6 The Origin and Early Evolution of the Earth
7 Mountain Building and Drifting Continents
8 Cryptozoic History: An Introduction to the Origin of Continental Crust
9 Early Life and Its Patterns
10 Earliest Paleozoic History: The Sauk Sequence - An Introduction to Cratons and Epeiric Seas
11 The Later Ordovician: Further Studies of Plate Tectonics and the Paleogeography of Orogenic Belts
12 The Middle Paleozoic: Time of Reefs, Salt, and Forests
13 Late Paleozoic History: A Tectonic Climax and Retreat of the Sea
14 The Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles and Continental Breakup
15 Cenozoic History: Threshold of the Present
16 Pleistocene Glaciation and the Advent of Humanity
17 The Best of all Possible Worlds?
Appendix I The Classification and Relationships of Living Organisms
Appendix II English Equivalents of Metric Measures
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