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Donald R. Prothero
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- PREFACE ix
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
- Volcanic Tuff Vulcan’s Wrath: The Eruption of Vesuvius 1
- Native Copper. The Iceman and the Island of Copper 11
- Cassiterite. The “Isles of Tin” and the Bronze Age 23
- Angular Unconformity. “No Vestige of a Beginning”: The Immensity of Geologic Time 35
- Igneous Dikes. The “Earth’s Great Heat Engine”: The Origin of Magmas 47
- Coal. The Rock That Burns Fires the Industrial Revolution 56
- Jurassic WORLD. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Rocks of Britain 67
- Radioactive Uranium. CLOCKS IN ROCKs: Arthur Holmes and the Age of the Earth 79
- Chondritic Meteorites. Messengers From Space: The Origin of the Solar System 89
- Iron-Nickel Meteorites. The Cores of Other Planets 98
- Moon Rocks. Green Cheese or Anorthosite? The Origin of the Moon 112
- ZIRCONS. Early Oceans and Life? Evidence in a Grain of Sand 124
- Stromatolites. Microbial Condos: Cyanobacteria and the Oldest Life 134
- Banded Iron Formation. Mountains of Iron: The Earth’s Early Atmosphere 144
- Turbidites. Archean Sediments and Submarine Landslides 154
- Diamictites. Tropical Glaciers and the Snowball Earth 166
- Exotic Terranes. Paradox in Rocks: Wandering Fossils and Traveling Landmasses 180
- Jigsaw-Puzzle Bedrock. Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift 194
- Chalk. The Cretaceous Seaway and the Greenhouse Planet 208
- The Iridium Layer. The Death of the Dinosaurs 216
- Lodestones. How Paleomagic Launched Plate Tectonics 229
- Blueschists. The Puzzle of Subduction Zones 249
- Transform Faults. Earthquake! The San Andreas Fault 271
- Glacial Erratics. A POET, A PROFESSOR, A POLITICIAN, A JANITOR, AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE ICE AGES 316
- Index 339
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- PREFACE ix
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
- Volcanic Tuff Vulcan’s Wrath: The Eruption of Vesuvius 1
- Native Copper. The Iceman and the Island of Copper 11
- Cassiterite. The “Isles of Tin” and the Bronze Age 23
- Angular Unconformity. “No Vestige of a Beginning”: The Immensity of Geologic Time 35
- Igneous Dikes. The “Earth’s Great Heat Engine”: The Origin of Magmas 47
- Coal. The Rock That Burns Fires the Industrial Revolution 56
- Jurassic WORLD. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Rocks of Britain 67
- Radioactive Uranium. CLOCKS IN ROCKs: Arthur Holmes and the Age of the Earth 79
- Chondritic Meteorites. Messengers From Space: The Origin of the Solar System 89
- Iron-Nickel Meteorites. The Cores of Other Planets 98
- Moon Rocks. Green Cheese or Anorthosite? The Origin of the Moon 112
- ZIRCONS. Early Oceans and Life? Evidence in a Grain of Sand 124
- Stromatolites. Microbial Condos: Cyanobacteria and the Oldest Life 134
- Banded Iron Formation. Mountains of Iron: The Earth’s Early Atmosphere 144
- Turbidites. Archean Sediments and Submarine Landslides 154
- Diamictites. Tropical Glaciers and the Snowball Earth 166
- Exotic Terranes. Paradox in Rocks: Wandering Fossils and Traveling Landmasses 180
- Jigsaw-Puzzle Bedrock. Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift 194
- Chalk. The Cretaceous Seaway and the Greenhouse Planet 208
- The Iridium Layer. The Death of the Dinosaurs 216
- Lodestones. How Paleomagic Launched Plate Tectonics 229
- Blueschists. The Puzzle of Subduction Zones 249
- Transform Faults. Earthquake! The San Andreas Fault 271
- Glacial Erratics. A POET, A PROFESSOR, A POLITICIAN, A JANITOR, AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE ICE AGES 316
- Index 339
