Annals of the Former World (Reprint) By McPhee, John Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux Published Date : 2000/06 Binding : Paperback ISBN : 9780374518738 BookWeb Price : THB 694.00 Kinokuniya Privilege Card member price : THB 624.00 Availability Status : Available for order from suppliers. Usually dispatches within 2-3 weeks. Language : English

 
BOOK 1: BASIN AND RANGE
  Transcontinental Time Line: the Present          25 (3)
  Transcontinental Time Line: Late Triassic        28 (3)
  Why Would an English Major Write about Rocks?    31 (38)
  Set Piece on Geologic Time                       69 (23)
  Transcontinental Time Lines:                     92 (23)
  Mississippian/Pennsylvanian
  Set Piece on Plate Tectonics                     115(22)
  Ken Deffeyes Predicts Nevada Seaway              137(10)
BOOK 2: IN SUSPECTTERRAIN
  The Biography of Anita Harris                    147(10)
  The Geology of New York City                     157(52)
  The Delaware Water Gap as a Fragment of the      209(1)
  Appalachians
  The Appalachians and Plate Tectonics             209(45)
  The Theory of Continental Glaciation             254
  Origins of Coal                                  245(3)
  Petroleum in Pennsylvania                        248
  Transcontinental Time Lines:                     189(12)
  Cambrian/Ordovician
  Transcontinental Time Lines: Early and Late      201(16)
  Silurian
  Cautionary Arguments about Plate-Tectonic        217(77)
  Theory
BOOK 3: RISING FROM THE PLAINS
  Rawlins and the Spread of Time                   294(16)
  The Laramide Orogeny                             310(3)
  The Burial and Exhumation of the Rocky           313(19)
  Mountains
  Love Ranch and Family History                    332(34)
  The Geologic History of Jackson Hole and the     366(14)
  Tetons
  Field Geology v. Black Box Geology               380(8)
  Set Piece on Geophysical Hot Spots               388(21)
  Transcontinental Time Line: Eocene               409
  Wyoming Environmental Montage                    403(51)
    Coal                                           404(8)
    Oil Shale                                      412(3)
    Trona                                          415(2)
    Oil and Gas in the Overthrust Belt             417(2)
    Oil in Yellowstone Park                        419(2)
    Sedimentary Uranium                            421(33)
BOOK 4: ASSEMBLING CALIFORNIA
  The Gold Rush of the Nineteenth Century          454(22)
  Ophiolites: Transported Ocean Crust              476(3)
  The Smartville Block                             479(32)
  Cyprus                                           511(8)
  Greece                                           519(7)
  Crown King, Arizona                              526(9)
  The Great Central Valley                         535(9)
  The Coast Ranges                                 544(10)
  World Ophiolites and Global Tectonics            554(16)
  The Geology of San Francisco                     570(11)
  The San Andreas Family of Faults                 581(6)
    The Hayward Fault                              600
  1992 Earthquakes, New Fault at Landers and       587(16)
  Joshua Tree
  1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake                      603(25)
BOOK 5: CROSSING THE CRATON
  The Midcontinent Rift                            628(2)
  The Oldest Rock                                  630(1)
  The Earliest Beginnings of the World             630(1)
  The Archean Cratons                              631(3)
  Oxygen and the Precipitation of Banded Iron      634(1)
  The Beginning of Modern Plate Tectonics          634(2)
  The Coalescence of the Canadian Shield           636(2)
  The Arcs of Nebraska and Colorado                638(7)
  Radiometric Dating, Magnetic and Gravity         645(5)
  Anomalies, and Well Cores
  The Andean Margin of Kansas                      650(2)
  The Perforation of North America                 652(5)
  Transcontinental Time Line: Middle Proterozoic   657(3)
  Pikes Peak                                       660(3)
List of Maps                                       663(2)
Index                                              665(32)
Geologic Time Scale                                697