Part1 Earth Systems: Their Nature and Their Study
Chapter1 Investigating Earth Systems
Chapter2 Plate Tectonics
Chapter3 Earth Systems: Processes and Interactions
Chapter4 Sedimentary Rocks, Sedimentary Environments, and Fossils
Chapter5 Evolution and Extinction
Chapter6 Geologic Time and Stratigraphy
Part2 The Precambrian Origin and Early Evolution of Earth's Systems
Chapter7 An Extraordinary Beginning: The Hadean and Archean
Chapter8 The Origins of Life
Chapter9 The Proterozoic: Life Becomes a Geologic Force
Chapter10 Life's Big Bang: The Explosive Origins and Early Diversification of Multicellular Animals
Part3 The Phanerozoic: Toward the Modern World
Chapter11 The Early-to-Middle Paleozoic World
Chapter12 Late Paleozoic World
Chapter13 The Mesozoic Era
Chapter14 The Cenozoic Era: The Paleogene Period
Chapter15 The Cenozoic Era: The Neogene Period
Part4 Humans and the Environment
Chapter16 Rapid Climate Change During the Holocene
Chapter17 The Anthropocene: Humans as an Environmental Force