The Earth Through Time

This best-selling historical geology text provides an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology. The Earth Through Time, Seventh Edition, provides rich, authoritative coverage of the history of the Earth, offering the most comprehensive history in the discipline today. The Seventh Edition maintains its strong approach to stratigraphy and paleontology that other texts have lost, as well as including new discussion of key National Park expanded discussion of topics such as the "snowball Earth" and recent cladistic analyses. The text's paleogeographic maps are excellent in detail and are a vital component in understanding the earth's history.