Ontario Rocks
Three Billion Years of Environmental Change
Eyles, Nick
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, Canada
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 340pp Price: $49.95 ISBN: 1-55041-619-7
Library of Congress Number: QE191.E94 2002 Dewey: 557.13
Resource Type: Book
A three-billion-year story of Ontario's geological evolution.
Abstract:
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Table of Contents
1 Ontario Rocks
A Window Into The History Of Planet Earth
2 From Copernicus To Plate Tectonics
Milestones In Geologic Discovery
3 A Rocky Machine
How Planet Earth Works
4 The Rock Cycle
A Geological Blue-Box Program
5 Minerals
Buildings Blocks of Rocks
6 Making A Rock Record
The Science of Stratigraphy
7 2.5 Billion Years Ago
A Continent Called Arctica
And A Province Called Superior
8 1.9 Billion Years Ago
A Continent Called Nena
And A Province Called Southern
9 1.3 Billion Years Ago
A Continent Called Rodinia
And A Province Called Grenville
10 550 Million Years Ago
Rodinia Breaks Apart And
The Iapetus Ocean Floods Ontario
11 440 Million Years Ago
A Continent Called Pangea And The
Taconic Orogeny: The Iapetus Ocean Closes
12 360 Million Years Ago
The Acadian Orogeny
13 Rich Resources From The Rocks
Fueling Ontario's Economic Development
14 350 Million To 135,000 Years Ago
The Big Gap: From The Warmth of The Devonian
To The Ice Sheets of the Pleistocene
15 Toronto Rocks
Geology In The City
16 2.5 Million Years Ago
The Pleistocene Cooling
And Ice Sheets Cover Canada
17 Glaciation of Southern Ontario
Living on a Fossil Glacial Landscape
18 The Great Lakes
Watery Legacy of the Laurentide Ice Sheet
19 The Last 12,000 Years
The Postglacial In Ontario
20 Neotectonics
The Continuing Story of Plate
Tectonics In Ontario
21 Ontario Wastes Away
Weathering And Soils
22 The Built Landscape
The Impact of Urbanization
Additional Readings
Epilogue
Appendix 1
Appendix 11
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Subject Headings
