Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Chapter I INTRODUCTORY
- Chapter II THE CRUST OF THE EARTH
- Chapter III GEOLOGICAL CYCLES
- Chapter IV OTHER ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL HISTORY
- Chapter V PRESERVATION OF PLANTS AS FOSSILS
- Chapter VI A CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS
- Chapter VII THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF PLANT-LIFE: THE PRE-CAMBRIAN ERA
- Chapter VIII THE EARLIER PALAEOZOIC SEAS. THE CAMBRIAN, ORDOVICIAN AND SILURIAN PERIODS
- Chapter IX A LAND VEGETATION: THE DEVONIAN PERIOD
- Chapter X THE CARBONIFEROUS AND PERMIAN PERIODS
- Chapter XI THE EARLIER CARBONIFEROUS VEGETATION
- Chapter XII THE LATER CARBONIFEROUS VEGETATION, with some account of Permian floras
- Chapter XIII THE FIRST PHASE OF THE MESOZOIC ERA: THE TRIASSIC PERIOD
- Chapter XIV THE JURASSIC PERIOD
- Chapter XV THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD
- Chapter XVI THE CAINOZOIC ERA: THE TERTIARY PERIOD
- Chapter XVII THE QUATERNARY PERIOD
- Chapter XVIII CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ADDENDA
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Chapter I INTRODUCTORY
- Chapter II THE CRUST OF THE EARTH
- Chapter III GEOLOGICAL CYCLES
- Chapter IV OTHER ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL HISTORY
- Chapter V PRESERVATION OF PLANTS AS FOSSILS
- Chapter VI A CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS
- Chapter VII THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF PLANT-LIFE: THE PRE-CAMBRIAN ERA
- Chapter VIII THE EARLIER PALAEOZOIC SEAS. THE CAMBRIAN, ORDOVICIAN AND SILURIAN PERIODS
- Chapter IX A LAND VEGETATION: THE DEVONIAN PERIOD
- Chapter X THE CARBONIFEROUS AND PERMIAN PERIODS
- Chapter XI THE EARLIER CARBONIFEROUS VEGETATION
- Chapter XII THE LATER CARBONIFEROUS VEGETATION, with some account of Permian floras
- Chapter XIII THE FIRST PHASE OF THE MESOZOIC ERA: THE TRIASSIC PERIOD
- Chapter XIV THE JURASSIC PERIOD
- Chapter XV THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD
- Chapter XVI THE CAINOZOIC ERA: THE TERTIARY PERIOD
- Chapter XVII THE QUATERNARY PERIOD
- Chapter XVIII CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ADDENDA
- INDEX
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- Plant Life Through the AgesA Geological and Botanical Retrospect, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1931