Charles Schuchert
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1924
A Text-book
of Geology,
Part II—
Historical Geology
A TEXT-BOOK OF G E O L O G Y CHARLES SCHUCHERT
PREFACE TO PART II I. Historical Geology II. Organisms, their Composition, Structure, and Classification III. Fossils, the Geologist’s Time Markers IV. Evolution, the Constant Change of Living Things V. Continents and Oceans VI. Seas, the Essential Recorders of Earth History VII. The Geological Time Table, and the Age of the Earth VIII. The Evolution of the Stars and the Origin of the Solar System. IX. The Earth before Geologic Time X. The Changing Aspect of North America, or the Geosynclines, Borderlands, and Geanticlines XI. The Archeozoic Era XII. The Proterozoic Era, or Age of Iron Making XIII. The Lipalian Interval XIV. The Paleozoic Era XV. Cambrian Time and the Dominance of Trilobites XVI. Trilobites XVII. Brachiopoda or Lamp Shells XVIII. Mollusca or Shelled Animals XIX. Champlainian Time and the Reign of Invertebrate Animals. . XX. Petroleum and Natural Gas, their Distribution and Origin XXI. Silurian Time and the First Air-breathing Animals XXII. Corals and Coral-like Animals XXIII. The Rise of Fishes and the Prophecy of Vertebrate Dominance XXIV. Devonian Time and the Dominance of the Fishes XXV. The Mississippian Period and the Climax of Crinids and Ancient Sharks XXVI. Spiny-skinned Sea Animals (Phylum Echinoderma) XXVII. The Pennsylvanian Period, the Time of Greatest Coal Making XXVIII. The Rise of the Land Floras XXIX. Coal and its Occurrence in Nature XXX. The Rise of Land Vertebrates and the Dawn of Reptiles XXXI. Permian Time and its Glacial Climate XXXII. Climates of the Geologic Past, and the “ Critical Times ” XXXIII. The Beginning of Mesozoic Time: the Triassic Period XXXIV. Dinosaurs, the Mighty Rulers of Mesozoic Lands XXXV. The Jurassic Period and the Many Kinds of Reptiles XXXVI. The Dragons of Medieval Time XXXVII. Ammonites and Squids XXXVIII. The Lower Cretaceous, and the First Appearance of Flowering Plants (Angiosperms) XXXIX. Upper Cretaceous Time and the Birth of the Rocky Mountains XL. The Toothed Birds of Medieval Times XLI. The Dawn of the Recent in Cenozoic Time XLII. The Evolution of Mammals and the Rise of Mentality in the Cenozoic XLIII. The Evolution of Horses and Other Hoofed Mammals XLIV. The Evolution of the Elephants XLV. Pleistocene Time and the Last Glacial Climate XLVI. Man’s Place in Nature INDEX