TABLE OF CONTENTS - BRIEF


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CHAPTER 1 Earth as a System 1
CHAPTER 2 Rock-Forming Minerals and Rocks 29
CHAPTER 3 The Diversity of Life 57
CHAPTER 4 Environments and Life 91
CHAPTER 5 Sedimentary Environments 121
CHAPTER 6 Correlation and Dating of the Rock Record 151
CHAPTER 7 Evolution and the Fossil Record 181
CHAPTER 8 The Theory of Plate Tectonics 207
CHAPTER 9 Continental Tectonics and Mountain Chains 231
CHAPTER 10 Major Chemical Cycles 257
CHAPTER 11 The Archean Eon of Precambrian Time 285
CHAPTER 12 The Proterozoic Eon of Precambrian Time 315
CHAPTER 13 The Early Paleozoic World 341
CHAPTER 14 The Middle Paleozoic World 369
CHAPTER 15 The Late Paleozoic World 399
CHAPTER 16 The Early Mesozoic Era 435
CHAPTER 17 The Cretaceous World 465
CHAPTER 18 The Paleogene World 495
CHAPTER 19 The Neogene World 519
CHAPTER 20 The Holocene 559


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