Re: Phanerozoic Geology, or, Where's the Sequel?
From: don findlay (don_at_tower.net.au)
Date: 08/05/04
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Date: 5 Aug 2004 08:28:45 -0700
"George" <George@george.net> wrote in message news:<T0iQc.1426$zJ4.274@bignews1.bellsouth.net>...
> "Joe Bernstein" <joe@sfbooks.com> wrote in message
> news:cervgm$9g4$1@reader1.panix.com...
> > I'm trying to research the history of the continents and life
> > thereon for a moderately, well, trivial purpose. So I'm trying
> > to pick up some geology, but without spending months on it.
> >
> > Alan Goodwin's <Precambrian Geology> appears to be a wonderful
> > book, full of detailed information about its title subject everywhere
> > in the world, and with summaries of that information at several
> > different levels of sophistication, so that one can, as best I
> > can tell, just dip into it as much as one needs and walk away
> > happy. I say "as best I can tell" because I did observe that I
> > would need some vocabulary to read it, and so have been reading
> > a physical geology textbook prior to starting.
> >
> > Anyway, now I'm spoiled. If the Archean and Proterozoic can be
> > so comprehensively and handsomely treated, surely the Phanerozoic
> > can too? But if it can, I don't know where it *is* so treated.
> >
> > The local library has one of the four volumes of <Phanerozoic
> > Geology of the World>, dated 1978. Admittedly 1978 is only 11
> > years before Goodwin's date, but it still unnerves me a bit. Anyway,
> > the one volume in question (Mesozoic A) is all fearsomely long
> > treatments of individual regions, nary a summary in sight.
> >
> > At the opposite extreme we have the many books whose titles are
> > variations on <Historical Geology>. Some of these proceed period
> > by period, and these invariably devote nine-tenths of that space
> > to palaeontology, not to what the *rocks* were doing, which is what
> > I'm looking for. Others put "life" and "geology" in separate
> > chapters. The ones I've seen, however, still give the bulk of
> > their space to the "life" chapters, and in the maybe 40 pages
> > devoted to the Palaeozoic *geology*, will spend well over 30 on
> > North America. Now, I'm aware that the continents have been
> > different in the past from how they are now, but I'd still be
> > willing to bet money that North America was not 3/4 of the Earth's
> > land surface in the Palaeozoic, and anyway the pattern continues
> > up to more recent times.
> >
> > Should I go hunting for <Phanerozoic Geology of the World> at some
> > other library, because there really are summaries in the B volumes?
> > Are there less one-continent-obsessed historical geology books in
> > the world? Am I just *stuck* with <Phanerozoic Geology of the
> > World> because nobody has *ever* done anything better since plate
> > tectonics won? (And if so, what do I do about the Cenozoic, whose
> > volumes are apparently unpublished?) Is there some other option?
> >
> > I see from recent threads that while this group, like many Usenet
> > groups, is dominated by the usual kookwars, there are people here
> > who answer serious questions seriously. Sorry to be asking for help
> > while unable to give any, but y'know, if you ever pop into news.groups,
> > rec.arts.sf.written, soc.history.ancient, or humanities.classics, I
> > may be able to return the favour *there* anyway. So thank you for
> > any help you can offer...
> >
> > Joe Bernstein
> >
> > --
> > Joe Bernstein, bookseller and writer joe@sfbooks.com
> > <http://www.panix.com/~josephb/>
>
> Try these references, and see if they are what you are looking for.
>
> John R. Anderson, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA: The World of Geology.
> Historical Geology, lecture notes. See also: Paleozoic Life Lectures (keywords).
>
> Ron Blakey, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff:
> Global Earth History. This presentation uses a series of plate-tectonic
> reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history. Both
> horizontal and vertical links are provided for viewing the plates: horizontal
> links provide time-slices (eg Cambrian, Devonian, Triassic, etc.) of different
> kinds of data on maps and other illustrations whereas vertical links provide a
> dynamic portrayal of Earth history through a succession of similar
> plate-tectonic reconstructions.
>
> Carlton E. Brett, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
> Ohio: GEOBIOLOGY II: Historical Geology.
>
> Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment
> and Resources (CGER) 1995 (page images at NAP): Effects of Past Global Change on
> Life.
>
> Lucy E. Edwards and John Pojeta Jr., USGS Geologic Information - General
> Interest Pubs, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey: Fossils,
> Rocks and Time. The printed version of this publication is one of a series of
> general interest publications prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey. This
> on-line edition contains all text from the original book in its entirety.
>
> Museum of Natural History, University of Florence: The Origin of Life. Life
> through time, in a nutshell.
>
> S. Foley, Institut für Mineralogie, Universität Greifwald (hosted by Deutsche
> Mineralogische Gesellschaft): Die Bildung der Erde, and Die junge Erde. Word or
> PDF files, in German. See also: Liste der Themen für Fortbildungsveranstaltungen
> und Unterrichtsmaterialien.
>
> Mike Fowler and Roger Suthren, Geology, Oxford Bookes University: Introduction
> To Geology. See the teaching and learning materials index, Lecture support
> material.
>
> Pamela J. W. Gore, DeKalb College, Georgia: Geology 102 - Historical Geology.
> See also:
> Pamela J. W. Gore, Georgia Perimeter College: Historical Geology Online
> Laboratory Manual.
>
> Richard Harter, The Talk.Origins Archive: Changing Views of the History of the
> Earth. This web site gives a summary of the way scientists have determined the
> age of the Earth.
>
> Christoph Heubeck, Sabine Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen Götze, Ulla and Michael Schudack,
> David Völker, Christoph Dobmeier, Joachim Müller, Henry Wuttke and Henriette
> Peters, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin: Die Erde. An
> introduction to Geosciences. Go to: Ereignisse der Erdgeschichte (in German).
>
> Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum (HVNHM), Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience
> Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Department of
> Geological Sciences, University of Ottawa: Carboniferous Forests. Easy to read
> publication. Life, death, and afterlife of a coal forest.
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Department of Geology, University of Maryland: Historical
> Geology - The History of Earth and Life. Lecture notes.
>
> ! Harald Immel, Institut für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie,
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Paläontologische Gesellschaft):
> Literaturempfehlungen zur "Allgemeinen Paläontologie", and Literaturempfehlungen
> zur "Historischen Geologie". Textbook recommendations, in German.
>
> International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) ICS is the largest scientific
> body within the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). It is also
> the only organisation concerned with stratigraphy on a global scale.
>
> Martin Lee, Division of Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow: Mesozoic
> stratigraphy.
>
> Harold L. Levin, Washington University: The Earth Through Time, Seventh Edition
> (provided by Wiley, Higher Education). This textbook provides rich,
> authoritative coverage of the history of the Earth, offering the most
> comprehensive history in the discipline today. Some sample chapters: Chapter 1,
> Introduction to Earth History. Including geohistorical reflections about Abraham
> Gottlob Werner, James Hutton, William Smith, Georges Cuvier and Alexandre
> Brongniart, etc. Chapter 2. Earth Materials: A Physical Geology Refresher, and
> Chapter 3. The Sedimentary Archives.
>
> Reinhold Leinfelder, Section Palaeontology, Department of Earth and
> Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany:
> Historical geology: Grass roots and principles. Lecture notes, in German.
>
> Kevin McCartney, Northern Maine Museum of Science, University of Maine at
> Presque Isle: Historical Geology.
>
> Miller Museum of Geology, Queen´s University, Kingston, Ontario: The Dawn of
> Animal Life. Using exclusively Canadian rocks and fossils, this exhibit
> highlights almost three billion years of early evolution when only simple,
> soft-bodied creatures inhabited the Earth.
>
> ! Volker Mosbrugger & Jörg Loeschke, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie,
> Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Tübinger Internet MultiMedia Server,
> timms). Historische Geologie. Video lectures, In German.
>
> William L. Newman, USGS Geologic Information - General Interest Pubs, U.S.
> Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey: Geologic Time. This online
> edition contains chiefly all text from the original book in its entirety.
>
> Hugh Rance, City University of New York: The Present is the Key to the Past. An
> electronic, college level, introductory historical geology textbook.
>
> Steven M. Stanley (W. H. Freeman & Company): Earth System History. An online
> companion for the student and the instructor (interactive exercises, key terms,
> review questions, web links).
>
> Victor A. Schmidt and William Harbert (mirrored by the Faculty Computer Lab,
> Faculty of Geosciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): Planet Earth and
> the New Geosciences. Go to: UNIT 1: A SENSE OF TIME.
>
> Cecil J. Schneer, Department of Earth Sciences University of New Hampshire;
> Durham, NH: "STRATA" SMITH ON THE WEB. Strata identified by organized fossils; a
> facsimile edition. William Smith's Geological Table is a summary of the
> paleontology, lithology, topographic expression, location, and useful products
> of the strata of England and Wales. Smith's great geological map of England and
> Wales and part of Scotland (1815) was one of the first if not the first
> geological survey in the modern sense, and a paradigm for the geologic mapping
> of the globe for well over a century.
>
> Naturmuseum Senckenberg: Earth History. Brief introduction, in German.
>
> Paul K. Strother, Weston Observatory of Boston College, Department of Geology &
> Geophysics, Weston: Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth. This course is
> being designed to use the www in lieu of a textbook. To use this website most
> effectively, go to the lecture notes and click on a specific lecture topic. This
> will bring up lecture notes or a content outline (if available) and additional
> www links to specific topics covered in the course lecture.
>
> Ellen Thomas, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan
> University: Macroevolution. Lecture notes. Please, navigate from here. Worth
> checking out: Assignment: Plants.
>
> Udo Zindel and Detlef Clas, Südwestrundfunk 2: Erdzeit - Wie die Welt wurde, was
> sie ist. Netzwerk ohne Grenzen: Das Zusammenspiel der Arten. Easy-to-understand
> real audio file, online-script and references (in German). Script also available
> via e-mail.
(....George, ...Kookwarrior.)
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