Sisällysluettelo:
“…Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Deep Time in the Cordillera -- Fossils and Museums: Windows into Ancient Worlds -- The Origin and Evolution of Canada's Western Mountains -- Lower Cambrian Trilobites: Most Ancient Mariners -- The Trilobite Beds of Mount Stephen, Yoho National Park -- The Burgess Shale: A Spectacular Cambrian Bestiary -- The Microscopic World of Conodonts -- Mesozoic Radiolarians of Haida Gwaii -- Fishes of the Triassic: Trawling off Pangaea -- Ammonoids and Bivalves: Triassic Life at Sea -- Ammonoids: Itinerants of the Jurassic -- On the Trail of Cretaceous Dinosaurs -- Ancient Saurians: Cretaceous Reptiles of Vancouver Island -- Mollusks: Exotic Shells from Cretaceous Seas -- Plant Life during the Great Cretaceous Transformation -- Paleogene Mammals on Land and at Sea -- Fishes from Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- Insects near Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- Flowering Plants in and around Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- Eocene Conifers of the Interior -- Quaternary Animals: Vertebrates of the Ice Age -- Late Pleistocene Salmon of Kamloops Lake -- Quaternary Plants: Glimpses of Past Climates and Landscapes -- Epilogue: The Cordillera through the Mists of Time -- Contributors -- Index…”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…""Contents""; ""Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: The Challenge of Integrating Social Theory and Regional Studies""; ""I""; ""II""; ""III""; ""IV""; ""V""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part I: Comparative Sociology, Civilizational Analysis, and Regional Studies""; ""1: Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies""; ""From Durkheim and Weber to Redfieldâ€?…”
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“…Intro -- Ocean Circulation and El Niño: New Research -- Contents -- Preface -- Seasonal Cycle Variations on the Supercontinent of Pangaea: Implications for the Early Jurassic Paleoceanography of the European Epicontinental Sea -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theoretical Atmospheric and Ocean Circulation Pattern -- Mesozoic Ocean Circulation in the European Epicontinental Sea -- Early Jurassic Ostracoda, Paleocirculation and Water Masses -- The Role of the Opening of the Hispanic Corridor -- Modelling the Water Masses in the Early Jurassic -- Comparison of Early Jurassic Paleodata and Climate Models Results -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Modal Decomposition for Oceanic Circulation: Applications for a High-Resolution Model and Lagrangian Data -- Abstract -- 1. …”
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“…Prologue -- Pangaea revisited, the Neolithic reconsidered -- The Norse and the Crusaders -- The Fortunate Isles -- Winds -- Within reach, beyond grasp -- Weeds -- Animals -- Ills -- New Zealand -- Explanations -- Conclusion -- Appendix: what was the "smallpox" in New South Wales in 1789?…”
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“…The sixth extinction -- The mastodon's molars -- The original penguin -- The luck of the ammonites -- Welcome to the Anthropocene -- The sea around us -- Dropping acid -- The forest and the trees -- Islands on dry land -- The new Pangaea -- The rhino gets an ultrasound -- The madness gene -- The thing with feathers…”
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“…Intro -- Geology of the Alps -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Alps in their plate tectonic framework -- 1.1 Older mountain chains in Europe -- 1.2 Break-up of Pangaea and opening of the Alpine Tethys -- 1.3 The Alpine system in Europe -- 1.4 Structure of the Alps -- References -- 2 The pre-Triassic Basement of the Alps -- 2.1 The pre-Triassic Basement in the Black Forest and Vosges -- 2.2 The pre-Triassic Basement of the External Massifs -- External Massifs in the Western Alps -- External Massifs in the Central Alps -- External Massifs in the Eastern Alps -- 2.3 The pre-Triassic Basement of the Penninic Nappes -- 2.4 The pre-Triassic Basement of the Austroalpine Nappes -- 2.5 The pre-Triassic Basement of the Southern Alps -- 2.6 Palaeozoic Sediments in the Eastern and Southern Alps -- The Palaeozoic in the Carnic Alps -- The Palaeozoic of the Greywacke Zone -- The Palaeozoic of the Innsbruck Quartz Phyllite -- 2.7 The Variscan Orogen at the Close of the Palaeozoic -- 2.8 Post-Variscan Sediments and Volcanics of the Permian -- The North Swiss Permo-Carboniferous Trough -- The Permo-Carboniferous in the Helvetic Nappe Complex -- The Permo-Carboniferous in the Penninic Nappe Complex -- The Permo-Carboniferous in the Austroalpine Nappe Complex -- The Permo-Carboniferous in the Southalpine Nappe System -- References -- 3 The Alpine Domain in the Mesozoic -- 3.1 The Mesozoic Rock Suites -- The European Continental Margin -- Oceanic Arms between the Baltic and Africa -- The Adriatic Continental Margin -- 3.2 Plate Tectonic Evolution -- Triassic: Epicontinental Platforms -- Jurassic: Opening up of Oceanic Arms -- Cretaceous: Opening and Closing of Oceanic Arms -- References -- 4 The Alpine Domain in the Cenozoic -- 4.1 The Cenozoic Sedimentary Sequences -- 4.2 Late Cretaceous and Paleogene Flyschs -- 4.3 Eocene-Oligocene Flyschs…”
“…This first volume covers the period in the early 1900s when Wegener first pointed out that the Earth's major landmasses could be fitted together like a jigsaw and went on to propose that the continents had once been joined together in a single landmass, which he named Pangaea. It describes the reception of Wegener's theory as it splintered into sub-controversies and geoscientists became divided between the 'fixists' and 'mobilists'"--…”