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Tables of Contents for Annals of the Former World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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: Mississippian/Pennsylvanian
92
23
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 Appalachians
209
1
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: Cambrian/Ordovician
189
12
Transcontinental Time Lines: Early and Late Silurian
201
16
Cautionary Arguments about Plate-Tectonic Theory
217
77
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 Mountains
313
19
Love Ranch and Family History
332
34
The Geologic History of Jackson Hole and the Tetons
366
14
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 Joshua Tree
587
16
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 Anomalies, and Well Cores
645
5
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