Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and Its Native Plants.
With its active fault systems, complex landforms, and myriad natural habitats, southern California boasts a rich and dynamic geologic environment. This abundantly illustrated volume at last provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible resource for students and general readers interested in...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | CA : University of California Press, 2007. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Part One Introduction; 1 This Book; 2 Prologue to Geology of Southern California; Some Early Studies of Geology; The Geologic Map; Geologic Explorations in California; Some Significant Contributions to the Geology of California; Part Two The Earth and Geologic Time; 3 Earth Materials; The Universe; Early Universe; Solar System; The Earth; Rocks; Igneous Rocks; Sedimentary Rocks; Metamorphic Rocks; 4 Geologic Time; Biostratigraphy; Magnetostratigraphy; Astrochronology; Geochronology; Radiometric Age Dating; How Radiometric Dating Works.
- Rocks and Minerals Dated by Various Radiometric MethodsCorrelating Geologic Ages/Stages; The Importance of European Stages; Great Valley Group; Mammal Ages; Molluscan Stages; Microfossil Stages; Glacial and Interglacial Stages; Evolution; 5 Plate Tectonics; Mid-Oceanic Ridges and Trenches; San Andreas Fault and Continental Drift; Continental Drift; Magnetism and Paleomagnetism; Magnetic Signatures of Rocks; Magnetic Reversals; Sea-Floor Spreading; Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes; Faults; Transform Faults; Fracture Zones; Triple Junctions; Moving Plates; Supercontinents; Plate Boundaries.
- Continental Margins and OrogeniesPart Three Southern California through Geologic Time; 6 Overview of the Geologic History of SouthernCalifornia; 7 Proterozoic Era; Older Proterozoic Rocks; Younger Proterozoic Rocks; 8 Paleozoic Era; Cambrian Period; Ordovician Period; Silurian Period; Devonian Period; Mississippian Period; Pennsylvanian Period; Permian Period; 9 Mesozoic Era; Triassic Period; Triassic Rocks of Southern California; Jurassic Period; Jurassic Rocks of Southern California; Cretaceous Period; Cretaceous Rocks in Southern California; Mesozoic Igneous Rocks in Southern California.
- Mesozoic Sierra de Salinas, Rand, Pelona, and Orocopia SchistsThe Catalina Schist; Salinia; The San Andreas Fault System; The Role of the San Gregorio-San Simeon-Hosgri Fault Zone Offsetting Salinia; Salinia's Place of Origin; Proto-San Andreas Fault; Western Boundary of Salinia; Summary; 10 Cenozoic Era; Cenozoic Plate Tectonics; California during Paleocene and Eocene Time; Eocene Fossil Flora and Fauna in California; California during Oligocene Time; Oligocene Geoflora of California; California during Miocene Time; Offshore Santa Maria Basin; Extensional Tectonics; Garlock Fault.
- Oligocene to Miocene GeoflorasCalifornia during Pliocene Time; Sierra Nevada; California during Late Pliocene to Pleistocene Time; Sierra Nevada and the Coast Ranges; California during the Pleistocene Epoch; Volcanic Rocks; Sea Level; Mojave Desert Pediments; Coastal Uplift; Glaciers; Pleistocene Biota; Cenozoic Life and Terrestrial and Marine Paleoclimatein Southern California; Overall Trends; Paleocene Epoch; Eocene Epoch; Oligocene Epoch; Miocene Epoch; Pliocene to Early Pleistocene; Pleistocene Epoch; Part Four Geology and Botany of Southern California's Geomorphic Provinces.