The Earth Through Time

by John Wiley & Sons

This best-selling historical geology text provides an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology. The Earth Through Time, Seventh Edition, provides rich, authoritative coverage of the history of the Earth, offering the most comprehensive history in the discipline today. The Seventh Edition maintains its strong approach to stratigraphy and paleontology that other texts have lost, as well as including new discussion of key National Park expanded discussion of topics such as the "snowball Earth" and recent cladistic analyses. The text\'s paleogeographic maps are excellent in detail and are a vital component in understanding the earth\'s history.

Genres: Science, Geology, Textbooks, Biology, Reference, History, Nonfiction

632 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1983

Reviews

[Lisa]

The Earth Through Time by Harold L. Levin (2003)

[Avery · Rating 5 out of 5]

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!

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Opened my eyes to how he planet and life evolved on it occured

[Kyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wealth of information. It focuses slightly more on geology than on prehistoric life, but it still has solid sections on the latter.