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Geology for dummies: [learn to: grasp the study of the earth, its materials, and its processes ; recognize rocks, minerals, and geologic marvels ; score your highest in geology courses]

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Beteilige Person:	Spooner, Alecia M. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Hoboken, NJ Wiley 2011
Schlagwörter:	Geologie Einführung Lehrbuch
Links:	http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=024425792&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Umfang:	XX, 360 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:	9781118021521

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adam_text	IMAGE 1 CONTENTS AT A GLANCE IS # FT FT # B V # !* #I # * # # INTRODUCTION / PART 1: STUDYING THE EARTH 7 CHAPTER 1: ROCKS FOR JOCKS (AND EVERYBODY ELSE) 9 CHAPTER 2: OBSERVING EARTH THROUGH A SCIENTIFIC LENS 17 CHAPTER 3: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF GEOLOGIC THOUGHT 27 CHAPTER 4: HOME SWEET HOME: PLANET EARTH 37 PART 11: ELEMENTS, MINERALS, AND ROCKS 45 CHAPTER 5: IT S ELEMENTAL, MY DEAR: A VERY BASIC CHEMISTRY OF ELEMENTS AND COMPOUNDS 47 CHAPTER 6: MINERALS: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ROCKS 57 CHAPTER 7: RECOGNIZING ROCKS: IGNEOUS, SEDIMENTARY, AND METAMORPHIC TYPES ...75 PART HI: ONE THEORY TO EXPLAIN IT ALT: PLATE TECTONICS 107 CHAPTER 8: ADDING UP THE EVIDENCE FOR PLATE TECTONICS 109 CHAPTER 9: WHEN CRUSTAL PLATES MEET, IT S ALL RELATIVE 121 CHAPTER 10: WHO S DRIVING THIS THING? MANTLE CONVECTION AND PLATE MOVEMENT 139 PART IV: SUPERFICIALLY SPEAKING: ABOUT SURFACE PROCESSES......:. 153 CHAPTER 11: GRAVITY TAKES ITS TOLL: MASS WASTING / 155 CHAPTER 12: WATER: ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND 165 CHAPTER 13: FLOWING SLOWLY TOWARD THE SEA: GLACIERS 185 CHAPTER 14: BLOWING IN THE WIND: MOVING SEDIMENTS WITHOUT WATER 199 CHAPTER 15: CATCH A WAVE: THE EVOLUTION OF SHORELINES 211 PART V: LONG, LONG AGO IN THIS GALAXY RIGHT HERE...... 221 CHAPTER 16: GETTING A GRIP ON GEOLOGIC TIME 223 CHAPTER 17: A RECORD OF LIFE IN THE ROCKS 241 IMAGE 2 CHAPTER 18: TIME BEFORE TIME BEGAN: THE PRECAMBRIAN 253 CHAPTER 19: TEEMING WITH LIFE: THE PALEOZOIC ERA 267 CHAPTER 20: IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED MESOZOIC PARK: WHEN DINOSAURS DOMINATED 285 CHAPTER 21: THE CENOZOIC ERA: MAMMALS TAKE OVER 299 CHAPTER 22: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: MAJOR EXTINCTION EVENTS IN EARTH S HISTORY 315 PART (/I: THE PART OF 7I?WS......... 327 CHAPTER 23: TEN (PLUS) WAYS HUMANS ACT AS GEOLOGIC AGENTS 329 CHAPTER 24: TEN GEOLOGIC HAZARDS 335 INDEX.* 341 IMAGE 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. 7 ABOUT THIS BOOK 1CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS BOOK 2WHAT YOU RE NOT TO READ 2FOOLISH ASSUMPTIONS 2HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED.... 3PART I: STUDYING THE EARTH 3PART II: ELEMENTS, MINERALS, AND ROCKS 3PART III: ONE THEORY TO EXPLAIN IT ALL: PLATE TECTONICS 3 PART IV: SUPERFICIALLY SPEAKING: ABOUT SURFACE PROCESSES 4 PART V: LONG, LONG AGO IN THIS GALAXY RIGHT HERE 4 PART VI: THE PART OF TENS 4ICONS USED IN THIS BOOK 4WHERE TO GO FROM HERE 5 PART H STUDYING THE EARTH 7 CHAPTER 1: ROCKS FOR JOCKS (AND EVERYBODY ELSE) 9 FINDING YOUR INNER SCIENTIST 9MAKING OBSERVATIONS EVERY DAY 10JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS 10FOCUSING ON ROCK FORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION 10 UNDERSTANDING HOW ROCKS FORM 11TUMBLING THROUGH THE ROCK CYCLE 11MAPPING CONTINENTAL MOVEMENTS 11UNIFYING GEOLOGY WITH PLATE TECTONICS THEORY 12 DEBATING A MECHANISM FOR PLATE MOVEMENTS 13 MOVING ROCKS AROUND ON EARTH S SURFACE 13INTERPRETING A LONG HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH 14USING RELATIVE VERSUS ABSOLUTE DATING 14WITNESSING EVOLUTION IN THE FOSSIL RECORD 15 CHAPTER 2: OBSERVING EARTH THROUGH A SCIENTIFIC LENS. 17 REALIZING THAT SCIENCE IS NOT JUST FOR SCIENTISTS 17 USING A METHODICAL APPROACH: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD 18 SENSING SOMETHING NEW 19I HAVE A HYPOTHESIS! 19TESTING YOUR HYPOTHESIS: EXPERIMENTS 20 IMAGE 4 GEOLOGY FOR DUMMIES CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS 21 INTERPRETING RESULTS 23 SHARING THE FINDINGS 23 THE END-ALL, BE-ALL: A SCIENTIFIC THEORY 23 IT S NEVER JUST A THEORY 24 SCIENTIFIC THEORY VERSUS SCIENTIFIC LAW 24 THE ROAD TO PARADIGMS 25 SPEAKING IN TONGUES: WHY GEOLOGISTS SEEM TO SPEAK A SEPARATE LANGUAGE 25 LAMINATION VS. FOLIATION: SIMILAR OUTCOMES FROM DIFFERENT PROCESSES 25 GABBRO VS. BASALT: DIFFERENT OUTCOMES FROM SIMILAR PROCESSES 26 CHAPTER 3: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF GEOLOGIC THOUGHT 27 CATASTROPHE STRIKES AGAIN AND AGAIN 28 EARLY THOUGHTS ON THE ORIGIN OF ROCKS I 28 DEVELOPING MODERN GEOLOGIC UNDERSTANDING 29 READING THE ROCK LAYERS: STENO S STRATIGRAPHY 29 THESE THINGS TAKE TIME! HUTTON S HYPOTHESIS 30 WHAT HAS BEEN WILL BE: LYELL S PRINCIPLES 31 UNIFORMI-WHAT? UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH THROUGH UNIFORMITARIANISM...31 PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER: THE THEORY OF PLATE TECTONICS 32 FORGING AHEAD INTO NEW FRONTIERS 33 ASKING HOW, WHERE, AND WHY: MOUNTAIN BUILDING AND PLATE BOUNDARIES 33 MYSTERIES OF THE PAST: SNOWBALL EARTH, FIRST LIFE, AND MASS EXTINCTIONS 33 PREDICTING THE FUTURE: EARTHQUAKES AND CLIMATE CHANGE 35 OUT OF THIS WORLD: PLANETARY GEOLOGY AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE 36 CHAPTER 4: HOME SWEET HOME: PLANET EARTH 37 EARTH S SPHERES 37 EXAMINING EARTH S GEOSPHERE 39 DEFINING EARTH S LAYERS 39 EXAMINING EACH LAYER 41 PART 11: ELEMENTS, MINERATS, AND ROCKS CHAPTER 5: IT S ELEMENTAL, MY DEAR: A VERY BASIC CHEMISTRY OF ELEMENTS AND COMPOUNDS 47 THE SMALLEST MATTER: ATOMS AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE 47 GETTING COMFORTABLE WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE 48 INTERPRETING ISOTOPES 51 CHARGING PARTICLES: IONS 51 IMAGE 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHEMICAL BONDAGE FOR BEGINNERS 52 DONATING ELECTRONS (IONIC BONDS) 52 SHARING ELECTRONS (COVALENT BONDS) 54 MIGRATING ELECTRONS (METALLIC BONDS) 54 FORMULATING COMPOUNDS 55 CHAPTER 6: MINERALS: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ROCKS .57 MEETING MINERAL REQUIREMENTS 58 MAKING CRYSTALS 58 IDENTIFYING MINERALS USING PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS 59 OBSERVING TRANSPARENCY, COLOR, LUSTER, AND STREAK 59 MEASURING MINERAL STRENGTH 60 IF IT TASTES LIKE SALT, IT MUST BE HALITE: NOTING UNIQUE MINERAL PROPERTIES 64 MEASURING PROPERTIES IN THE LAB 65 REALIZING MOST ROCKS ARE BUILT FROM SILICATE MINERALS 65 FINDING SILICATES IN MANY SHAPES /. 67 GROUPING SILICATE MINERALS ..70 REMEMBERING THE NONSILICATE MINERALS 70 CARBONATES 70 SULFIDES ANDSULFATES 71 OXIDES 71 NATIVE ELEMENTS 72 EVAPORITES 72 GEMSTONES 73 CHAPTER 7: RECOGNIZING ROCKS: IGNEOUS, SEDIMENTARY, AND METAMORPHIC TYPES 75 CRYSTALLIZING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER: IGNEOUS ROCKS 76 CLASSIFYING IGNEOUS ROCKS 76 MAMA MAGMA: BIRTHING IGNEOUS ROCKS 79 WHEN MAGMA BECOMES LAVA: STUDYING VOLCANOES 83 SEEING WHAT LIES BENEATH: PLUTONS 86 MERGING MANY SINGLE GRAINS OF SAND: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS 87 WEATHERING ROCKS INTO SEDIMENTS 89 SETTLE DOWN (AND BE COMPACTED)!: CHANGING FROM SEDIMENT INTO ROCK 91 SIZING UP THE GRAINS: CLASSIFYING SEDIMENTARY ROCKS 93 NO GRAINS AT ALL: CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS 94 TELLING STORIES OF THE PAST: SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES 96 STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: METAMORPHIC ROCKS 98 AND YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE STRESSED! HEAT, PRESSURE, AND METAMORPHISM 99 GRADES OF METAMORPHISM AND INDEX MINERALS 100 BETWEEN THE MINERAL SHEETS: FOLIATION, OR MAYBE NOT 100 CATEGORIZING METAMORPHIC ROCKS 102 MOVING THROUGH THE ROCK CYCLE: HOW ROCKS CHANGE FROM ONE TYPE TO ANOTHER 105 IMAGE 6 GEOLOGY FOR DUMMIES PAN 111: ONE THEORY TO EXPLAIN IT ALL: PLATE TECTONICS.... 107 CHAPTER 8: ADDING UP THE EVIDENCE FOR PLATE TECTONICS 109 DRIFTING APART: WEGENER S IDEA OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT 110 CONTINENTAL PUZZLE SOLVING 110 FOSSIL MATCHING 112 STRATIGRAPHIC STORIES 112 ICY COLD CLIMATES OF LONG AGO 114 MEETING AT THE EQUATOR 115 SEARCHING FOR A MECHANISM 115 COMING TOGETHER: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHEDS LIGHT ON PLATE TECTONICS... 116 SEA-FLOOR MAPPING, OR HOW WWII ADVANCED TECTONIC THEORY .... 116 FLIP-FLOPPING MAGNETIC POLES: PALEOMAGNETISM AND SEAFLOOR SPREADING 116 MEASURING PLATE MOVEMENTS ., 118 UNIFYING THE THEORY 119 CHAPTER 9: WHEN CRUSTAL PLATES MEET, ITS ALL RELATIVE 121 DENSITY IS KEY 121 TWO OF A KIND: CONTINENTAL AND OCEANIC CRUST 122 DARK AND DENSE: OCEANIC CRUST 123 THICK AND FLUFFY: CONTINENTAL CRUST 123 UNDERSTANDING WHY DENSITY MATTERS: ISOSTASY 123 DEFINING PLATE BOUNDARIES BY THEIR RELATIVE MOTION 125 DRIVING APART: DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES 126 CRASHING TOGETHER: CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES 128 SLIP-SLIDING ALONG: TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARIES 131 SHAPING TOPOGRAPHY WITH PLATE MOVEMENTS 132 DEFORMING THE CRUST AT PLATE BOUNDARIES 132 COMPRESSING ROCKS INTO FOLDS 133 FAULTING IN RESPONSE TO STRESS 135 BUILDING MOUNTAINS 137 CHAPTER 10: WHO S DRIVING THIS THING? MANTLE CONVECTION AND PLATE MOVEMENT , 139 RUNNING IN CIRCLES: MODELS OF MANTLE CONVECTION 140 MANTLE PLUMES: JUST LIKE THE LAVA IN YOUR LAMP 142 TUG OF WAR: THE SLAB-PULL VERSUS RIDGE-PUSH MODEL 142 USING CONVECTION TO EXPLAIN MAGMA, VOLCANOES, AND UNDERWATER MOUNTAINS 143 PLATE FRICTION: MELTING ROCK BENEATH THE EARTH S CRUST 143 CREATING VOLCANIC ARCS AND HOTSPOTS 144 BIRTHING NEW SEAFLOOR AT MID-OCEAN RIDGES 147 IMAGE 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS SHAKE, RATTLE, AND ROLL: HOW PLATE MOVEMENTS CAUSE EARTHQUAKES 148 RESPONDING ELASTICALLY 148 SENDING WAVES THROUGH THE EARTH 149 MEASURING MAGNITUDE 150 PART W: SUPERFICIALLY SPEAKING: ABOUT SURFACE PROCESSES 153 CHAPTER 11: GRAVITY TAKES ITS TOLL: MASS WASTING 155 HOLDING STEADY OR FALLING DOWN: FRICTION VERSUS GRAVITY 156 FOCUSING ON THE MATERIALS INVOLVED 157 LOOSE MATERIALS: RESTING AT THE ANGLE OF REPOSE 157 BEDROCK: LOSING ITS STABILITY 158 TRIGGERING MASS MOVEMENTS 158 ADDING WATER TO THE MIX . F 158 CHANGING THE SLOPE ANGLE 159 SHAKING THINGS UP: EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES 160 REMOVING VEGETATION 160 MOVING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EARTH, QUICKLY 160 FALLS 161 SLIDES AND SLUMPS 161 FLOWS 162 A MORE SUBTLE APPROACH: CREEP AND SOIL FLOW (SOLIFLUCTION) 163 CHAPTER 12: WATER: ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND 165 HYDROLOGIC CYCLING 165 DRIVING THE CYCLE WITH EVAPORATION 166 TRAVELING ACROSS A CONTINENT 167 STREAMS: MOVING SEDIMENTS TOWARD THE OCEAN 168 DRAINING THE BASIN 168 TWO TYPES OF FLOW 169 MEASURING STREAM CHARACTERISTICS ... 170 CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD 170 MEASURING WHAT IS TRANSPORTED 171 ERODING A STREAM CHANNEL TO BASE LEVEL 172 SEEKING EQUILIBRIUM AFTER CHANGES IN BASE LEVEL 173 LEAVING THEIR MARK: HOW STREAMS CREATE LANDFORMS 174 DRAINING THE BASIN 174 MEANDERING ALONG 175 DEPOSITING SEDIMENTS ALONG THE WAY.... 177 REACHING THE SEA 178 FLOWING BENEATH YOUR FEET: GROUNDWATER 178 INFILTRATING TINY SPACES UNDERGROUND 178 MEASURING POROSITY AND PERMEABILITY 179 IMAGE 8 }C(/F GEOLOGY FOR DUMMIES SETTING THE WATER TABLE 180 SPRINGING FROM ROCKS 181 THAT SINKING FEELING: KARST, CAVES, AND SINKHOLES 182 CHAPTER 13: FLOWING SLOWLY TOWARD THE SEA: GLACIERS 185 IDENTIFYING THREE TYPES OF GLACIERS 185 UNDERSTANDING ICE AS A GEOLOGIC FORCE 186 TRANSFORMING SNOW INTO ICE 186 BALANCING THE GLACIAL BUDGET 187 FLOWING SOLIDLY DOWN THE MOUNTAIN 188 ERODING AT A SNAIL S PACE: LANDFORMS CREATED BY GLACIAL EROSION 189 PLUCKING AND ABRADING ALONG THE WAY 189 CREATING THEIR OWN VALLEYS 190 SPEAKING FRENCH: CIRQUES, ARETES, ET ROCHE MOUTONNEES 190 LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND: GLACIAL DEPOSITS 192 DEPOSITING THE TILL 192 PLAINS, TRAINS, ESKERS, AND KAMES 193 BEHAVING ERRATICALLY: LARGE BOULDERS IN ODD PLACES 195 WHERE HAVE ALL THE GLACIERS GONE? 195 FILLING THE EROSIONAL GAPS 195 CYCLING THROUGH ICE AGES 196 REBOUNDING ISOSTATICALLY 198 CHAPTER 14: BLOWING IN THE WIND: MOVING SEDIMENTS WITHOUT WATER 199 LACKING WATER: ARID REGIONS OF THE EARTH 199 TRANSPORTING PARTICLES BY AIR 200 SKIPPING RIGHT ALONG: BED LOAD AND SALTATION 200 SUSPENDING PARTICLES IN AIR 202 DEFLATING AND ABRADING: FEATURES OF WIND EROSION 202 REMOVING SEDIMENTS 202 SCRATCHING THE SURFACE 203 JUST ADD WIND: DUNES AND OTHER DEPOSITIONAL WIND FEATURES 203 MIGRATING PILES OF SAND: DUNES 204 SHAPING SAND 205 LAYING DOWN LAYERS OF LOESS 207 PAVING THE DESERT: DEPOSITION OR EROSION? 208 CHAPTER 15: CATCH A WAVE: THE EVOLUTION OF SHORELINES 211 BREAKING FREE: WAVES AND WAVE MOTION 211 DISSECTING WAVE ANATOMY 211 STARTING TO ROLL 212 GOING WITH THE FLOW: CURRENTS AND TIDES 214 SHAPING SHORELINES 216 CARVING CLIFFS AND OTHER FEATURES 216 BUDGETING TO BUILD SANDBARS 216 CATEGORIZING COASTLINES 218 IMAGE 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART V: LANG, LONG AGO IN THIS GALAXY RIGHT HERE....... 221 CHAPTER 16: GETTING A GRIP ON GEOLOGIC TIME 223 THE LAYER CAKE OF TIME: STRATIGRAPHY AND RELATIVE DATING 223 SPEAKING RELATIVELY 224 SORTING OUT THE STRATA 224 PUTTING ROCK LAYERS IN THE RIGHT ORDER 225 LOSING TIME IN THE LAYERS 226 SHOW ME THE NUMBERS: METHODS OF ABSOLUTE DATING 228 MEASURING RADIOACTIVE DECAY 228 COMMON RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES FOR GEOLOGICAL DATING 232 OTHER EXACTING METHODS OF GEOLOGICAL DATING 234 RELATIVELY ABSOLUTE: COMBINING METHODS FOR THE BEST RESULTS 236 EONS, ERAS, AND EPOCHS (OH MY!): STRUCTURING THE GEOLOGIC TIMESCALE 237 T CHAPTER 17: A RECORD OF LIFE IN THE ROCKS 241 EXPLAINING CHANGE, NOT ORIGINS: THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION 241 THE EVOLUTION OF A THEORY 242 ACQUIRING TRAITS DOESN T DO IT 242 NATURALLY, SELECTING FOR SURVIVAL 243 MENDEL S PEAS PLEASE 243 GENETIC NUTS AND BOLTS 244 SPONTANEOUSLY MUTATING GENES 244 SPECIATING RIGHT AND LEFT 245 PUTTING EVOLUTION TO THE TEST ..246 AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE FOSSILIZATION OF LIFEFORMS 246 BONES, TEETH, AND SHELL: BODY FOSSILS 247 JUST PASSING THROUGH: TRACE FOSSILS 247 CORRECTING FOR BIAS IN THE FOSSIL RECORD 249 HYPOTHESIZING RELATIONSHIPS: CLADISTICS 249 CHAPTER 18: TIME BEFORE TIME BEGAN: THE PRECAMBRIAN 253 IN THE BEGINNING . .. EARTH S CREATION FROM A NEBULOUS CLOUD 254 ADDRESSING ARCHEAN ROCKS 255 CREATING CONTINENTS 255 REVVING UP THE ROCK CYCLE .....256 FEELING HOT, HOT, HOT: EVIDENCE FOR EXTREME TEMPERATURES 257 ORIGINATING WITH OROGENS: SUPERCONTINENTS OF THE PROTEROZOIC EON .... 258 SINGLE CELLS, ALGAL MATS, AND THE EARLY ATMOSPHERE 259 HUNTING EARLY PROKARYOTES AND EUKARYOTES 259 YOU KNOW IT AS POND SCUM: CYANOBACTERIA 260 WAITING TO INHALE: THE FORMATION OF EARTH S ATMOSPHERE 263 IMAGE 10 GEOLOGY FOR DUMMIES CHAPTER 19: TEEMING WITH LIFE: THE PALEOZOIC ERA 267 EXPLODING WITH LIFE: THE CAMBRIAN PERIOD 268 TOUGHEN UP! DEVELOPING SHELLS 268 WHEN ROLY POLYS RULED THE WORLD 269 BUILDING REEFS ALL OVER THE PLACE 270 EURYPTERIDS 271 AMMONOIDS AND NAUTILOIDS 272 SPINAL TAPPING: ANIMALS WITH BACKBONES 274 FISH EVOLVE BODY ARMOR, TEETH, AND . .. LEGS? 274 PART-TIME LAND DWELLERS: AMPHIBIANS VENTURE OUT OF THE WATER... 276 ADAPTING TO LIFE ON LAND: THE REPTILES 277 PLANTING ROOTS: EARLY PLANT EVOLUTION 278 TRACKING THE GEOLOGIC EVENTS OF THE PALEOZOIC 279 CONSTRUCTING CONTINENTS 280 READING THE ROCKS: TRANSGRESSIONS AND REGRESSIONS 280 FOSSILIZING CARBON FUELS 284 PANGAEA, THE MOST SUPER OF SUPERCONTINENTS 284 CHAPTER 20: IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED MESOZOIC PARK: WHEN DINOSAURS DOMINATED 285 DRIVING PANGAEA APART AT THE SEAMS 286 ONE CONTINENT BECOMES MANY 286 INFLUENCING GLOBAL CLIMATE 287 CREATING THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH AMERICA 288 REPOPULATING THE SEAS AFTER EXTINCTION 289 THE SYMBIOSIS OF FLOWERS 290 RECOGNIZING ALL THE MESOZOIC REPTILES 292 IF IT FLIES OR SWIMS, IT S NOT REALLY A DINOSAUR 292 FLOCKING TOGETHER 294 CLIMBING THE DINOSAUR FAMILY TREE 295 ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAURS 295 SAURISCHIAN DINOSAURS 297 LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR LATER DOMINANCE: EARLY MAMMAL EVOLUTION 298 CHAPTER 21: THE CENOZOIC ERA: MAMMALS TAKE OVER 299 PUTTING CONTINENTS IN THEIR PROPER (OKAY, CURRENT) PLACES 299 CREATING MODERN GEOGRAPHY 300 CONSUMING THE FARALLON PLATE 302 CARVING THE GRAND CANYON WITH UPLIFT 303 ICING OVER NORTHERN CONTINENTS 303 IMAGE 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS )CI)C ENTERING THE AGE OF MAMMALS 304 REGULATING BODY TEMPERATURE 306 FILLING EVERY NICHE 306 LIVING LARGE: MASSIVE MAMMALS THEN AND NOW 307 NOSING AROUND ELEPHANT EVOLUTION 308 RETURNING TO THE SEA: WHALES 310 LARGER THAN LIFE: GIANT MAMMALS OF THE ICE AGES 311 RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW: THE REIGN OF HOMO SAPIENS 311 CHAPTER 22: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: MAJOR EXTINCTION EVENTS IN EARTH S HISTORY 315 EXPLAINING EXTINCTIONS 316 HEADS UP! ASTRONOMICAL IMPACTS 316 LAVA, LAVA EVERYWHERE: VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND FLOOD BASALTS 317 SHIFTING SEA LEVELS 319 CHANGING CLIMATE 319 END TIMES, AT LEAST FIVE TIMES K 319 COOLING TROPICAL WATERS 320 REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS 320 THE GREAT DYING 321 PAVING THE WAY FOR DINOSAURS 322 DEMOLISHING DINOSAURS: THE K/T BOUNDARY 322 MODERN EXTINCTIONS AND BIODIVERSITY 324 HUNTING THE MEGAFAUNA 324 REDUCING BIODIVERSITY 325 PART VI: THE PART OF TENS 327 CHAPTER 23: TEN (PLUS) WAYS HUMANS ACT AS GEOLOGIC AGENTS ,329 DAMMING RIVERS 329 SHAPING WATERWAYS 330 NOURISHING BEACHES ... 330 CHANGING COASTLINES 331 DESTABILIZING SLOPES 331 FRACKING FOR NATURAL GAS 331 REMOVING MOUNTAINTOPS 332 DEVELOPING DESERTS 332 CREATING CAVERNS 332 TRANSPORTING EARTH MATERIALS 333 CHANGING THE CLIMATE 333 IMAGE 12 GEOLOGY FOR DUMMIES CHAPTER 24: TEN GEOLOGIC HAZARDS 335 CHANGING COURSE: RIVER FLOODING 335 CAVING IN: SINKHOLES 336 SLIDING DOWN: LANDSLIDES 336 SHAKING THINGS UP: EARTHQUAKES 336 WASHING AWAY COASTAL TOWNS: TSUNAMIS 337 DESTROYING FARMLAND AND COASTAL BLUFFS: EROSION 338 FIERY EXPLOSIONS OF MOLTEN ROCK: VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS 338 MELTING ICE WITH FIRE: JOKULHLAUPS 339 FLOWING RIVERS OF MUD: LAHARS 339 WATCHING THE POLES: GEOMAGNETISM 339 INDEX ......... ..... 361
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