Earth Time

Douglas Palmer is an academic, lecturer and popular science writer. He is author or co-author of a wide range of books on prehistoric life and fossils, including the best selling Earth. He teaches for the Cambridge University Natural Science Tripos and the International Summer School. A former earth sciences lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, he also spent two years as an exhibition coordinator at the National Museum of Wales.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction.PART I: CUTTING THROUGH EARTH TIME—MR. SMITH'S SECTION FROM LONDON TO SNOWDON.1. Recent Earth Time - The Holocene.2. The Diluvium - The Flood and the Ice Ages.3. Below the Surface - Into Tertiary Times.4. Layer upon Layer - Deeper and Deeper into Earth Tine.5. Oolites and Lias - The Jurassic before the Park.6. Red Beds in the Midlands and Russia.7. Fuelling the Industrial Revolution.8. A Boundary dispute in the Welsh Hills.9. The end of the Line - The Precambrian.PART II: MAJOOR POWELL'S BOAT TRIP THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON.10. A Glympse into the abyss of Earth Time.11. Signs of life appear.12. The cambrian arms race.13. The Upper Paleozoic - American Style.14. The Missing Mesozoic and the making of the Canyon.15. Peopling the Americas.16. Rock of ages - Dating rocks and fossils.Earth Time - Conclusion.References.Index.