Historical Geology

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Licence
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Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

  1. Historical Geology
  2. Introduction
  3. Minerals
  4. Silicate minerals
  5. Rocks
  6. Igneous rocks
  7. Sedimentary rocks
  8. Metamorphic rocks
  9. Mechanical weathering and erosion
  10. Chemical weathering
  11. Glaciers
  12. Deserts
  13. Volcanic ash
  14. Soils and paleosols
  15. Rivers
  16. Deltas
  17. Lakes
  18. Peat and coal
  19. Nearshore sediments
  20. Marine sediments
  21. Turbidites
  22. Reefs
  23. Ooids and oolite
  24. Calcareous ooze
  25. Siliceous ooze
  26. Pelagic clay
  27. Deposition rates
  28. Glacial marine sediment
  29. Saline giants
  30. Banded iron formations
  31. Physical properties of rocks
  32. Seismic waves
  33. The structure of the Earth
  34. Geomagnetic reversals
  35. Plate tectonics: overview
  36. Continental drift
  37. Sea floor spreading
  38. Subduction
  39. Hotspots
  40. Terranes
  41. Ophiolites
  42. Orogeny
  43. Actualism
  44. Steno's principles
  45. Way-up structures
  46. Fossils
  47. The principle of faunal succession
  48. Index fossils
  49. The geological column
  50. Unconformities
  51. Faults
  52. Folds
  53. Walther's principle
  54. Cross-cutting relationships
  55. Igneous rocks and stratigraphy
  56. Concepts in absolute dating
  57. Erosion, deposition, and time
  58. Dendrochronology
  59. Varves
  60. Amino acid dating
  61. Radioactive decay
  62. K-Ar dating
  63. Ar-Ar dating
  64. Rb-Sr dating
  65. Other isochron methods
  66. U-Pb, Pb-Pb, and fission track dating
  67. Radiocarbon dating
  68. Cosmogenic surface dating
  69. U-Th, U-Pa, and Ra-Pb dating
  70. Paleomagnetic dating
  71. Sclerochronology
  72. Tidal rhythmites and dating
  73. Fossils and absolute dating
  74. Absolute dating: an overview
  75. Paleoclimatology: introduction
  76. Sediments and climate
  77. Paleocurrents
  78. Biogeography and climate
  79. Leaf shape and temperature
  80. Dendroclimatology
  81. Scleroclimatology
  82. Uk'37
  83. TEX86
  84. Ice cores
  85. Milankovitch cycles
  86. Climate models
  87. Ice ages
  88. Sea level variations
  89. Glossary and index
  90. Bibliography
  91. Chemistry for geologists