Stratigraphy and life history [by] Marshall Kay [and] Edwin H. Colbert. With a chapter on "The origin of the earth" by Dean B. McLaughlin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Wiley [1965]Description: 736 p. illus., maps. 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 557
LOC classification:
  • QE71 .K36
Contents:
The Physical Features of the North American Continent -- The Determination of Stratigraphic Sequences from Physical Evidence -- Some Methods of Correlation by Physical Characters -- Geochemistry in Precambrian Correlations -- Classification and Faunal Correlation in the Cambrian System -- The Tectonic Elements of the Cambrian Continent -- The Facies Faunas in the Odovician Marginal Volcanic Belts -- The Phases of Orogeny: The Taconian Revolution -- Silurian Reefs and Salt Basins -- The Devonian Period and the Evolving Vertebrates -- The Carboniferous -- Cyclic Movements and Coal Swamps -- The Carboniferous -- Tectonics in the Northeast, West, and South -- The Permian System and Continental Instability -- Paleozoic Life -- The Triassic Period, When the Lands Were Dominant -- The Jurassic -- Advent of the Mexican Basin and the Gulf Coastal Plain -- The Cretaceous Record in North America -- The Permanence or Drift of Continents -- Mesozoic Life -- The Tertiary History of Western North America -- The Tertiary of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts -- The Quaternary or Pleistocene Period -- the Great Ice Age -- Cenozoic Life -- The Progression of Events in the Continent and Its Origin -- Fossil Organisms -- The Origin of the Earth / Dean B. McLaughlin -- Stratigraphic Principles and Graphic Methods.
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Bibliographical references included in "Preface."

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The Physical Features of the North American Continent -- The Determination of Stratigraphic Sequences from Physical Evidence -- Some Methods of Correlation by Physical Characters -- Geochemistry in Precambrian Correlations -- Classification and Faunal Correlation in the Cambrian System -- The Tectonic Elements of the Cambrian Continent -- The Facies Faunas in the Odovician Marginal Volcanic Belts -- The Phases of Orogeny: The Taconian Revolution -- Silurian Reefs and Salt Basins -- The Devonian Period and the Evolving Vertebrates -- The Carboniferous -- Cyclic Movements and Coal Swamps -- The Carboniferous -- Tectonics in the Northeast, West, and South -- The Permian System and Continental Instability -- Paleozoic Life -- The Triassic Period, When the Lands Were Dominant -- The Jurassic -- Advent of the Mexican Basin and the Gulf Coastal Plain -- The Cretaceous Record in North America -- The Permanence or Drift of Continents -- Mesozoic Life -- The Tertiary History of Western North America -- The Tertiary of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts -- The Quaternary or Pleistocene Period -- the Great Ice Age -- Cenozoic Life -- The Progression of Events in the Continent and Its Origin -- Fossil Organisms -- The Origin of the Earth / Dean B. McLaughlin -- Stratigraphic Principles and Graphic Methods.