When Life Flourished in Ancient Seas
by Blashfield, Jean F.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-09
Publisher(s): Heinemann/Raintree
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Summary
This is not an imaginary world. This is our continent, North America, over 450 million years ago! Journey into the distant past with When Life Flourished in Ancient Seas: The Early Paleozoic Era. Witness the earliest transformations in what would become North America, when marine life blossomed, and living things first moved onto land. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| The Scene as the Paleozoic Started | p. 4 |
| The Cambrian Explosion | p. 18 |
| The Changing Face of Laurentia | p. 24 |
| Warm Shallow Seas-Where Rocks Were Built | p. 36 |
| Warm Shallow Seas-Where Life Evolved | p. 50 |
| Geologic Time Scale | p. 72 |
| Glossary | p. 74 |
| Further Information | p. 77 |
| Index | p. 79 |
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