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Stories from Stone
Callan Bentley, Karen Layou, Russ Kohrs, Shelley Jaye, Matt Affolter, and Brian Ricketts and Charlene Estrada
Sequences of Strata
Fossil Vocabulary
Magma, Metamorphism and Mountains
Earth's Story is Your Story!
Origin of the Universe: From Big Bang to Planet Earth
Charlene Estrada and Chris Johnson, Matthew D. Affolter, Paul Inkenbrandt, Cam Mosher
Geologic Time
Key Events in Earth History
Earth Systems
Atoms
Karla Panchuk
Bonding and Lattices
Mineral Groups
Silicate Minerals
Mineral Properties
Summary Key Term Check
What Is A Rock?
The Rock Cycle
Charlene Estrada
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Hypothesis
Chris Johnson, Matthew D. Affolter, Paul Inkenbrandt, Cam Mosher and Charlene Estrada
Development of Plate Tectonic Theory
Layers of Earth
Plate Boundaries
Sedimentary Rocks, Weathering and Erosion
Merry Wilson and Charlene Estrada
Sedimentary Environments
Plastic Deformation
Deformation: Stress and Strain
Brittle Deformation
Basic Map Features
Latitude and Longitude
Contour Lines
Geologic Map Units
Mapping Geologic Structures
What Is A Fossil?
Modes of Fossil Preservation
Trace Fossils: Studies in Scurrying, Scraping, and Slithering
Lateral Continuity, Superposition, and Inclusions
Original Horizontality and Cross-Cutting Relationships
Relative Dating and Unconformities
Fossils in Sedimentary Sequences
Some Final Practice
Charlene Estrada and Merry Wilson
The Hadean Eon (4600-4000 Ma)
The Archean Eon (4000-2500 Ma)
The Proterozoic Eon (2500-541 Ma)
Paleozoic Tectonics and Paleogeography
Paleozoic Evolution
The Permian Mass Extinction
Mesozoic Tectonics and Paleogeography
Mesozoic Evolution
The K-T Extinction
Cenozoic Tectonics and Paleogeography
Cenozoic Evolution
Origins of Humans and the Anthropocene
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Introduction to Historical Geology Copyright © by Chris Johnson; Callan Bentley; Karla Panchuk; Matt Affolter; Karen Layou; Shelley Jaye; Russ Kohrs; Paul Inkenbrandt; Cam Mosher; Brian Ricketts; and Charlene Estrada is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.