Essentials of earth history, an introduction to historical geology - Stokes, William Lee (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960)
Chapter One. Materials and MethodsCahpter Two. Time and its MeasurementChapter Three. Uniformity of ChangeChapter Four. Layered Rocks and the principle of superpositionChapter Five. Fossils and the succession of life on earthChapter Six. CorrelationChapter Seven. Organizing the RecordChapter Eight. The Cosmic BeginningsChapter Nine. The Earth takes formChapter Ten. The Rock REcord begins and life appearsChapter Eleven. The Early Paleozoic periodsChapter Twelve. The Late Paleozoic PeriodsChapter Thirteen. The Mesozoic eraChapter Fourteen. The Tertiary periodChapter Fifteen. The Pleistocene ice ageChapter Sixteen. The Coming of manChapter Seventeen. Patterns of SurvivalChapter Eighteen. Dispersal, Migration, and Species Formation in a Changing worldChapter Nineteen. Extinction and replacementChapter Twenty. Some selected family histories