Earth: Geologic Principles and History FIRST EDITIONCHERNICOFF/FOX/TANNER
Chapter 25 The Geology of the Cenozoic Era
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.3 Figure 25.02: Summary diagram of divisions of Cenozoic time and major geologic events
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.4 Figure 25.03: Major Cenezoic orogenic belts
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.5 Figure 25.05: The Alpine orogen
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 Figure 25.06: Cross section of nappe-folded mountains
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.7 Figure 25.07: The Arabian-African three way rift
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.8 Figure 25.08: Reconstruction of the Himalayan orogeny
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.9 Figure 25.08: Reconstruction of the Himalayan orogeny
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.10 Figure 25.09: Cenozoic changes in the Pacific realm
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.11 Figure a: Development of the Antarctic circumpolar current
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.12 Figure b: Development of the Antarctic circumpolar current
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.13 Figure a: Origin of the Gulf Stream current
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.14 Figure b: Origin of the Gulf Stream current
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.15 Figure 25.12: Chronology of major glacial and interglacial stages in North America
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.16 Figure 25.13: Isotopic composition of foraminifera tests during the Ice Age
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.17 Figure 25.14: Major Pleistocene lakes in the West
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.18 Figure 25.15: Maximum North American ice coverage
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 Figure 25.16: Maximum European ice coverage
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.20 Figure 25.17: Reconstructed Beringia landbridge
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.21 Figure 25.18: Glacial rebound in Scandinavia
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.22 Figure 25.19: Green River Formation
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.23 Figure 25.21: Colorado Plateau
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.24 Figure 25.26: Physiographic features of the Cordillera
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.25 Figure 25.27: Cross-section of the Basin and Range province
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.26 Figure 25.28: Formation of the San Andreas transform
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.27 Figure 25.29: Formation of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard