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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