1. Earth: Geologic Principles and History FIRST EDITIONCHERNICOFF/FOX/TANNER

2. Chapter 25 The Geology of the Cenozoic Era

3. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.3 Figure 25.02: Summary diagram of divisions of Cenozoic time and major geologic events

4. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.4 Figure 25.03: Major Cenezoic orogenic belts

5. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.5 Figure 25.05: The Alpine orogen

6. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 Figure 25.06: Cross section of nappe-folded mountains

7. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.7 Figure 25.07: The Arabian-African three way rift

8. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.8 Figure 25.08: Reconstruction of the Himalayan orogeny

9. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.9 Figure 25.08: Reconstruction of the Himalayan orogeny

10. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.10 Figure 25.09: Cenozoic changes in the Pacific realm

11. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.11 Figure 25.10 a: Development of the Antarctic circumpolar current

12. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.12 Figure 25.10 b: Development of the Antarctic circumpolar current

13. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.13 Figure 25.11 a: Origin of the Gulf Stream current

14. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.14 Figure 25.11 b: Origin of the Gulf Stream current

15. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.15 Figure 25.12: Chronology of major glacial and interglacial stages in North America

16. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.16 Figure 25.13: Isotopic composition of foraminifera tests during the Ice Age

17. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.17 Figure 25.14: Major Pleistocene lakes in the West

18. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.18 Figure 25.15: Maximum North American ice coverage

19. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 Figure 25.16: Maximum European ice coverage

20. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.20 Figure 25.17: Reconstructed Beringia landbridge

21. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.21 Figure 25.18: Glacial rebound in Scandinavia

22. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.22 Figure 25.19: Green River Formation

23. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.23 Figure 25.21: Colorado Plateau

24. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.24 Figure 25.26: Physiographic features of the Cordillera

25. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.25 Figure 25.27: Cross-section of the Basin and Range province

26. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.26 Figure 25.28: Formation of the San Andreas transform

27. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.27 Figure 25.29: Formation of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard