Trilobite, Dinosaur and Man
Subtitle: The Earth's Story
By: by Clifford D. Simak.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Paleontology -- Popular works.; Paleontology.
First sentence: NOTHING ON EARTH is where or what it is by chance.
Description: Summary, A journalist transcribes the story told by stones and fossils about the earth's birth and evolution.
Table of contents: label: 1.
title: Once There Was No Earth
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: The Forces That Shape the Earth
pagenum: 15; label: 3.
title: How to Find the Age of Rocks
pagenum: 36; label: 4.
title: The Fossil Record
pagenum: 52; label: 5.
title: The Precambrian: Dark Age of Geology
pagenum: 67; label: 6.
title: The Cambrian: Time of the Trilobite
pagenum: 82; label: 7.
title: The Ordovician: The Beginning of the Backbone
pagenum: 99; label: 8.
title: The Silurian: Beachhead
pagenum: 113; label: 9.
title: The Devonian: The Fish That Walked
pagenum: 125; label: 10.
title: The Mississippian: The Day of the Waddling Beasts
pagenum: 139; label: 11.
title: The Pennsylvanian: Coal and Cockroaches
pagenum: 146; label: 12.
title: The Permian: Day of Judgment
pagenum: 160; label: 13.
title: The Triassic: Dawn of the Reptile World
pagenum: 173; label: 14.
title: The Jurassic: The Day of the Dinosaur
pagenum: 186; label: 15.
title: The Cretaceous: A Time of Dying
pagenum: 203; label: 16.
title: The Cenozoic: The Age of Mammals
pagenum: 225; label: 17.
title: The Ice Age: The World Grows Cold
pagenum: 248; label: 18.
title: Man: The Triumph of Intelligence
pagenum: 275; title: Index
pagenum: 289