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The Earth Through Time
This best-selling historical geology text provides geologists with an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology. The ninth edition presents rich, authoritative coverage of the history of the Earth, offering the most comprehensive history in the discipline today. It maintains its strong approach to stratigraphy and paleontology that other texts have lost. The text's paleogeographic maps are excellent in detail and are a vital component in understanding the earth's history. Stunning artwork brings the ancient world to life. Geology of National Parks boxes encourage them to visit these parks to appreciate their geological significance. Geologists will also appreciate the questions about past geologic events and the processes used in finding answers.
624 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 1983
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February 21, 2012The Earth Through Time by Harold L. Levin (2003)
August 17, 2023
Absolutely amazing book about earth's geological time, with incredible illustrations through out.
It's an older book, so there are some things that are not completely up to date. But it still provides a solid overview of the formation of earth and deep time!
It's an older book, so there are some things that are not completely up to date. But it still provides a solid overview of the formation of earth and deep time!
May 4, 2025
Opened my eyes to how he planet and life evolved on it occured
June 22, 2025
If you're looking for a summary of geological and paleontological history of the world (though with a bit more of a focus on North America) this is an excellent way to learn it. Plenty of figures and fairly engaging to read. It is still a textbook, but it really does have the history of Earth through time.
My only complaints are that some of the calculations in the book were clearly done wrong for subjects outside of geology. The amount of helium produced by the sun, the volume of the protonebula for the solar system, and some cases where it would need to be "billion billion" rather than "billion" to be accurate. Perhaps these are pedantic points, in that the point of the textbook was to emphasize the largeness of some values, but with a physics/mathematics background I cannot just let them stand.
My only complaints are that some of the calculations in the book were clearly done wrong for subjects outside of geology. The amount of helium produced by the sun, the volume of the protonebula for the solar system, and some cases where it would need to be "billion billion" rather than "billion" to be accurate. Perhaps these are pedantic points, in that the point of the textbook was to emphasize the largeness of some values, but with a physics/mathematics background I cannot just let them stand.
December 2, 2018
A wealth of information. It focuses slightly more on geology than on prehistoric life, but it still has solid sections on the latter.
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