Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Map of main localities mentioned
- Abbreviations and units
- 1 An Australian perspective
- 2 The Earth: A geology primer
- 3 Building the core of Precambrian rocks
- 4 Warm times: Tropical corals and arid lands
- 5 Icehouse: Carboniferous and Permian glaciation
- 6 Mesozoic warming: The great inland plains and seas
- 7 Birth of modern Australia: Flowering plants, mammals and deserts
- 8 The history and evolution of life on Earth
- 9 Eastern highlands and volcanoes barely extinct
- 10 Building the continental shelf and coastlines
- 11 Great Barrier Reef
- 12 Planets, moons, meteorites and impact craters
- 13 A geological perspective on climate change
- 14 Cycles in a continental journey
- Sources and references
- Figure sources
- Index
Map of main localities mentioned
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Map of main localities mentioned
- Abbreviations and units
- 1 An Australian perspective
- 2 The Earth: A geology primer
- 3 Building the core of Precambrian rocks
- 4 Warm times: Tropical corals and arid lands
- 5 Icehouse: Carboniferous and Permian glaciation
- 6 Mesozoic warming: The great inland plains and seas
- 7 Birth of modern Australia: Flowering plants, mammals and deserts
- 8 The history and evolution of life on Earth
- 9 Eastern highlands and volcanoes barely extinct
- 10 Building the continental shelf and coastlines
- 11 Great Barrier Reef
- 12 Planets, moons, meteorites and impact craters
- 13 A geological perspective on climate change
- 14 Cycles in a continental journey
- Sources and references
- Figure sources
- Index
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- The Geology of Australia , pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009