Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and Its Native Plants.

Acknowledgments; Part One Introduction; 1 This Book; 2 Prologue to Geology of Southern California; Some Early Studies of Geology; The Geologic Map; Geologic Explorations in California; Some Significant Contributions to the Geology of California; Part Two The Earth and Geologic Time; 3 Earth Materials; The Universe; Early Universe; Solar System; The Earth; Rocks; Igneous Rocks; Sedimentary Rocks; Metamorphic Rocks; 4 Geologic Time; Biostratigraphy; Magnetostratigraphy; Astrochronology; Geochronology; Radiometric Age Dating; How Radiometric Dating Works.

Rocks and Minerals Dated by Various Radiometric MethodsCorrelating Geologic Ages/Stages; The Importance of European Stages; Great Valley Group; Mammal Ages; Molluscan Stages; Microfossil Stages; Glacial and Interglacial Stages; Evolution; 5 Plate Tectonics; Mid-Oceanic Ridges and Trenches; San Andreas Fault and Continental Drift; Continental Drift; Magnetism and Paleomagnetism; Magnetic Signatures of Rocks; Magnetic Reversals; Sea-Floor Spreading; Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes; Faults; Transform Faults; Fracture Zones; Triple Junctions; Moving Plates; Supercontinents; Plate Boundaries.

Continental Margins and OrogeniesPart Three Southern California through Geologic Time; 6 Overview of the Geologic History of SouthernCalifornia; 7 Proterozoic Era; Older Proterozoic Rocks; Younger Proterozoic Rocks; 8 Paleozoic Era; Cambrian Period; Ordovician Period; Silurian Period; Devonian Period; Mississippian Period; Pennsylvanian Period; Permian Period; 9 Mesozoic Era; Triassic Period; Triassic Rocks of Southern California; Jurassic Period; Jurassic Rocks of Southern California; Cretaceous Period; Cretaceous Rocks in Southern California; Mesozoic Igneous Rocks in Southern California.

Mesozoic Sierra de Salinas, Rand, Pelona, and Orocopia SchistsThe Catalina Schist; Salinia; The San Andreas Fault System; The Role of the San Gregorio-San Simeon-Hosgri Fault Zone Offsetting Salinia; Salinia's Place of Origin; Proto-San Andreas Fault; Western Boundary of Salinia; Summary; 10 Cenozoic Era; Cenozoic Plate Tectonics; California during Paleocene and Eocene Time; Eocene Fossil Flora and Fauna in California; California during Oligocene Time; Oligocene Geoflora of California; California during Miocene Time; Offshore Santa Maria Basin; Extensional Tectonics; Garlock Fault.

Oligocene to Miocene GeoflorasCalifornia during Pliocene Time; Sierra Nevada; California during Late Pliocene to Pleistocene Time; Sierra Nevada and the Coast Ranges; California during the Pleistocene Epoch; Volcanic Rocks; Sea Level; Mojave Desert Pediments; Coastal Uplift; Glaciers; Pleistocene Biota; Cenozoic Life and Terrestrial and Marine Paleoclimatein Southern California; Overall Trends; Paleocene Epoch; Eocene Epoch; Oligocene Epoch; Miocene Epoch; Pliocene to Early Pleistocene; Pleistocene Epoch; Part Four Geology and Botany of Southern California's Geomorphic Provinces.

11 Geomorphic and Floristic Provinces.

With its active fault systems, complex landforms, and myriad natural habitats, southern California boasts a rich and dynamic geologic environment. This abundantly illustrated volume at last provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible resource for students and general readers interested in southern California's geology and native plants. Covering an extensive area, north from San Diego to Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada and east to the Mojave and Colorado deserts, its unique, comprehensive approach brings together for the first time the basic principles of geology, the story of plate te.

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