Historical Geology (with CengageNOW Printed Access Card) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Reed Wicander, James S. Monroe
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
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Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0495012041
Dewey Decimal Number: 551
EAN: 9780495012047
ASIN: 0495012041
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
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Product Description
HISTORICAL GEOLOGY teaches students basic geologic principles as well as how scientists apply these principles to unravel Earth's history. Wicander and Monroe present a balanced overview of both the geological and biological history of Earth as a continuum of inter-related events. These events reflect the underlying principles and processes that have shaped our planet. The authors also explain the historical development of these basic principles and processes, and their importance in deciphering Earth history. Three major themes time, evolutionary theory, and plate tectonics are woven together throughout the book. These themes help students link essential material to enhance their understanding of historical geology.
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 Historical Geology March 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very good book for teaching and student (undergraduate, graduate or posgraduate level). Pedagogic design fully illustrated, actual knowledge.
 A reasonably good textbook, but WAY overpriced February 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For a hundred and fifty bucks, a reader has a right to expect something REALLY spectacular in a textbook, and this one just doesn't provide the goods. It's a competent book, readable, well organized and quite well-illustrated, but technically shallow in most subject areas and DEFINITELY not worth the asking price. If the book has been recommended to you elsewhere, try and pick it up used from one of the sellers listed on this site. (Don't pay more than eighty or ninety bucks, though, unless you absolutely need it for a class.)
 Very Good, But... February 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a very easy-to-understand textbook, yet there are many spelling errors and at least one obvious grammatical error just in the first five chapters. It's like everything was written in a bit of a rush and nobody proofread the material.
A very useful text for a one-semester course that is also great for the general reader December 1, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book was designed to provide materials for a one semester course in historical geology for both majors and non-majors. Its nineteen chapters focus on three themes: Plate Tectonics, Physical and Biological History (the history of Earth's physical features, systems, and the life forms that have inhabited it), and Evolution. The authors have done a very good job in making the text readable and I believe it can be read enjoyably and to great benefit by an interested general reader outside of class. At least I found it fascinating and informative. The text uses photos, diagrams, charts, and all kinds of illustrations to enhance the reader's understanding of what is being said. There is also a useful CD to supplement the text. And Thomson has provided a website with even more things to read and do.
Each chapter provides an outline of what is going to be discussed, a bulleted set of chapter objectives, an introduction, and the chapter materials. The intra-chapter material is presented to questions asked in the headings of each section. The chapters also have little boxes entitled "What Would You Do?" that try to ask practical questions about real life issues that are related to the material being discussed. Each chapter ends with a bulleted Summary section, a list of important terms (that usefully has the page number where that term was used) and review questions that are multiple choice and short essay types. There is also an Apply Your Knowledge section with a few problems for the student (reader) to think about and practically apply what has been learned in that chapter. Some also have Field Questions that ask questions about a photograph, figure or table provided or referred to in the text.
Chapters 1-4 lay out the systems in the Earth and how the changes its systems affect each other. They talk about the basic materials that make up the Earth, Plate Tectonics, and Geologic Time. Chapters 5 and 6 talk about Rocks, Fossils and how they fit into the time scale of the Earth - and a look at what sedimentary rocks are and how they record the history of life on Earth.
Chapters 7-9 talk about Evolution, its evidences, and early life during the Precambrian period (separate chapters for the Archean Eon and the Proterozoic Eon). Chapters 10-13 cover the Paleozoic. The Mesozoic is covered in Chapters 14 and 15, the Cenozoic in 16-18, and Chapter 19 covers Primate and Human Evolution.
Appendix A is a metric conversion chart, Appendix B lays out the classification of organisms, and Appendix C discusses mineral identification. There is a useful glossary and a helpful index. Between the glossary and index there is a page with the answers to each chapter's multiple choice questions.
This is an interesting, well written, and useful text that is useful for all readers interested in this subject and I am happy to recommend it.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
Good job September 9, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Got it a week before school started, which is about two weeks before the school bookstore shipped me my other textbooks. Thanks for that. Also, it was at a better price than the school bookstore tried to sell it to me for. An all around good buy and purchasing experience.
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