The Earth Through Time
8th Edition
Published on 1. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
616 pages
978-0-471-69743-5 (ISBN)
Description
This best-selling historical geology text provides an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology. The new eighth edition provides rich, authoritative coverage of the history of the Earth, offering the most comprehensive history in the discipline today. It maintains its strong approach to stratigraphy and paleontology that other texts have lost. The text's paleogeographic maps are excellent in detail and are a vital component in understanding the earth's history.
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Edition
8th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.), col. maps
Dimensions
Height: 278 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1156 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-69743-5 (9780471697435)
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New editions
Harold L. Levin
The Earth Through Time
Book
10/2009
9th Edition
Wiley
€245.00
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Previous edition
Harold D. Levin
The Earth through Time
Book
01/2003
7th Edition
Wiley
€83.57
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Content
Chapter 1. The Science of Historical Geology Chapter 2. Early Geologists Tackle History's Mysteries Chapter 3. Time and Geology Chapter 4. Rocks and Minerals: Documents that Record Earth's History Chapter 5. The Sedimentary Archives Chapter 6. Life on Earth: What Do Fossils Reveal? Chapter 7. Plate Tectonics Underlies All Earth History Chapter 8. Earliest Earth: 2,100,000,000 Years of the Archean Eon Chapter 9. The Proterozoic: Dawn of a More Modern World Chapter 10. Early Paleozoic Events Chapter 11. Late Paleozoic Events Chapter 12. Life of the Paleozoic Chapter 13. Mesozoic Events Chapter 14. Life of the Mesozoic Chapter 15. Cenozoic Events Chapter 16. Life of the Cenozoic Chapter 17. Human Origins