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Earth Song invites readers to delve into Earth's vast evolutionary journey, showcasing how life and landscapes have transformed over hundreds of millions of years. Using California as a central focus, the book explores how the state's unique geology and climate have preserved fragments of ancient ecosystems and extinct species. From Ice Age giants like the mammoth to prehistoric marine life fossilized in desert sands, California serves as a microcosm, encapsulating the powerful forces that have shaped our planet. These ancient remains reveal how evolving landscapes influenced survival, adaptation, and extinction, casting light on Earth's profound geological and biological interconnectedness. Moving beyond the scientific, Earth Song combines poetic narrative with rigorous research, highlighting the eternal link between past and present life. Each chapter enriches our understanding of Earth's history, illustrating the vibrant progression of life and the climatic shifts that propelled new species to prominence while others vanished. As life continues to adapt to California's dynamic environments, the book deepens our appreciation for Earth's ongoing transformation. This is an essential read for anyone captivated by nature's mysteries, the fossils embedded within, and the timeless story of survival etched in the planet's bedrock. This title was originally published in 1952.
Earth Song invites readers to delve into Earth's vast evolutionary journey, showcasing how life and landscapes have transformed over hundreds of millions of years. Using California as a central focus, the book explores how the state's unique geology and c
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents 1
- PRELUDE
- INTRODUCTION
- RECORD THE ROCKS
- EARTH STORY
- ENIGMA
- ROCKS OF LAND AND SEA
- TALE OF THE SEA ROCKS
- LIFE IN EARLY SEAS
- LIFE REACHES LAND
- SONG OF SALAMANDERS
- AGE OF COAL
- SONG OF REPTILES
- AGE OF REPTILES
- TRANSFORMATION
- AGE OF MAMMALS
- DEEP FREEZE
- COMING OF THE ICE
- PLEISTOCENE PARADE
- IMMIGRANTS AND FIRST FAMILIES
- BLACK DEATH
- Pleistocene cemetery
- SONG OF MAN
- RISE OF MAN
- EPISODE OF FOLSOM MAN glade. As echoes die, the monster charges forth on swaying limbs, ears flaring out, trunk held aloft, and curved tusks gleaming white. Huge bodies, pressed together in a mass of heaving heads and tusks and tossing trunks, crowd up behind to see who dares intrude upon the feeding ground. It is a bumbling band of piglike forms that stumble as they run, and, terrified, knock down their fellows as they tear away—unwitting culprits they, the peccaries. So with majestic tread on ponderous feet, soughing and sucking in the mud, the mammoths amble to the riverbank to drink and cool their bodies in the swamp.
- BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER
- RED MEN OF THE SOUTHWEST
- INVASION
- CALIFORNIA ON THE CHANGING EARTH
- CALIFORNIA’S CHANGING LIFE
- DESTINY
- CHARTS
- GLOSSARY
- RFERENCES
- INDEX