The Last Billion Years: A Geological History of the Maritime Provinces of CanadaThis book is about the history of the rocks and fossils of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI) over the last billion years. The book is beautifully illustrated in full colour, with original paintings of ancient vistas, over 150 photographs, and crisp explanatory diagrams and sketches. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Into Deepest Time | 61 |
The Pieces Come Together | 77 |
Copyright | |
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Acadian amphibians animals areas Avalon Terrane Back-Arc basalts Bathurst Bay of Fundy beach Brazilide Cambrian Cape Breton Island carbon Carboniferous rocks cliffs climate clubmoss coal continental continents Cretaceous deposits Devonian dinosaurs early Carboniferous early Jurassic Earth earthquake Euramerica example extinction fault fish forest formed fossils Fundy Basin geological geologists glacial glaciers global Gondwana granite ground water gypsum Halifax Ice Age ice sheets igneous Joggins kilometres lakes land lapetus Ocean late Carboniferous Laurentia layers limestone magma margin Meguma Terrane metamorphic metres million years ago mined minerals Miramichi-Bras d'Or Terrane modern Mountain North northern Nova Scotia oceanic crust Ordovician Pangea Parrsboro peat Permian plants plate plutonic Popelogan Precambrian Prince Edward Island quarried quartz region reptiles Rheic Ocean River Rodinia Saint John sand sandstone sea floor sea level sedimentary rocks sediments Silurian soil southern stone subduction supercontinent surface Terrane Tetagouche tree Triassic trilobites volcanic arc volcanic rocks