Tweedy's Geology Textbook
mc...@sunset.net
contains an embryo chart based on Haeckel. I produced:
Earth and lif through time by Stanley, Steven M.
The book states that it is a "historical geology." Not a history of
geology.
In fact, Charles Lyell is mentioned on 4 pages. 3, 137, 528, and 559
respectively. Hutton is mentioned on pages 2-3, 20-21, 306 and 385.
So, as you can see this is not a history of geology.
So what is a historical geology text. Let's take a look.
Let's see the relevant material:
Chapter 2 Environmental life.
Chapter 3 Nonmarine Seidmentary Environments.
Chapter 4 Marine Seidmentary Environments.
Chapter 5 Correlation and Dating of the Rock Record.
Chapter 6. Evolution and the Fossil Record.
Part Three Movements of the Earth.
Chapter 7 Plate Tectonics.
Chapter 8 Mountain Building.
Chapter 9 The Archean Eon of Precambrium Time
Chapter 10 Global Events of the Proterozoic.
Chapter 11 Proterozoic Cratons: Foundations of the Modern World.
Part Five The Paleozoic Era
Chapter 12 The early Paleozoic World.
Chapter 13 The Middle Paleozoic World
Chapter 14The Late Paleozoic World
Part Six The Mesozoic Era
Chapter 15 The Early Mesozoic Era
Chapter 16 The Cretacious World
Part Seven The Cenozoic Era
Chapter 17 The Paleogene World
Chapter 18 The Neogene World
Epilogue
Appendix I Minerals and Rocks
II Deformation Structures in Rocks
III Classification Major Fossil Groups.
IV Stratigrapic Stages.
Ah, let's just randomly open a page.
It falls on 104. Submarine Slopes and Turbidites.
"one of the greatest advances in the study of sedimentary rocks took
place in the middle of the twentieth cneturey with the recognition
that certain sedimentary rocks have been produced by turbidity
currents. A turbidity current is a flow of dense, sediment-charged
water moving down a slope under the influence of gravity.
"Turbidity currents were first notice in clear lakes...
Interesting, lot's of diagrams illustrating how this all works.
Hardcore geology, and not even a single chapter on the history of
geology.
JM