Sisällysluettelo:
“…Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Confronting a Shrinking World; Reuniting Pangaea; Wheat and Trout, Weeds and Pestilence; Elbowing Out the Natives; The Good, the Bad, the Fuzzy; The Making of a Pest; Taking Risks with Strangers; Stemming the Tide; Beachheads and Sleepers; Taking Control; Islands no Longer; Can We Preserve Integrity of Place?…”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies -- Introduction -- References -- 1. The Arab Revolution of 2011 and Its Counterrevolutions in Comparative Perspective -- A Global Comparative Perspective -- Constitutional Revolution and Its Distinctive Typological Features -- The Middle Eastern Perspective: A Comparison with Iran -- Neo-patrimonial Regimes and the Revolutions of 2011 -- Mobilizational Regimes and Revolution in the Middle East -- The State Survival and Constitutional Revolutions in Tunisia…”
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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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“…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?…”
“…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'"--…”
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“…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…”
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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…”