"The geologic journey"--P. [1] of cover.

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-498) and index.

Introduction -- About the authors -- ch. 1. A hellish beginning -- 1.1. The Hadean-- 1.1.1. The start of something really big 14 billion years ago -- 1.1.2. From dust to a planet -- 1.2. The earliest continents : a watery birth -- 1.3. The birth of the Archean : a unique Canadian record -- 1.4. Early life on Earth -- ch. 2. Moving Earth : plate tectonics -- 2.1. Looking deep into planet Earth - 2.1.2. The Earth stirs and our crust moves -- 2.2. The formation and destruction of lithospheric plates -- 2.2.1. Where plates move away from each other : making oceanic crust -- 2.2.2. Where plates collide : the subduction factory -- 2.2.3. Where plates slide past each other : transform boundaries -- 2.2.4. Plate collisions and the building of continents -- 2.3. Volcanic activity and plate tectonics -- 2.3.1. Volcanoes at the edges of plates -- 2.3.2. Volcanoes in the middle of plates : hot spots -- 2.3.3. Under heat and pressure : metamorphic rocks -- 2.4. Plate tectonics : is it the only model of how Earth works? -- 2.4.1. LIPs and MOMO events -- 2.4.2. MOMO events and the history of life -- 2.4.3. Dynamic topography -- 2.4.4. Rock stars : the impact of meteorites -- 2.5. Paleomagnetism and moving plates -- 2.6. The rock cycle and sedimentary basins -- 2.7. A final comment on plate tectonics --

ch. 3. The united plates of Canada : 4 billion years of tectonic activity -- 3.1. Construction and break-up : how continents evolve -- 3.2. The earliest continents -- 3.3. From Arctica to Nena to Rodinia -- 3.4. The beginning of the paleozoic : the explosion of Rodinia -- 3.5. The assembly of Pangea -- 3.6. The break-up of Pangea and the westward drift of North America -- 3.7. The last few million years -- ch. 4. Canada's heartland : the Shield -- 4.1. A crustal collage built by plate tectonics -- 4.1.1. Provinces and cratons -- 4.2. T%h e North American cratons vs. the Canadian shield -- 4.3. History of the North American craton: a tale of four continents (Arctica, Nena, Columbia and Rodinia) -- 4.4. The first North American continent (c.2.7 Ga) : Arctica -- 4.4.1. Formation of the Slave Province -- 4.4.2. Formation of the Superior Province : the largest piece of the craton -- 4.4.3. The Slave and Superior provinces weld together -- 4.4.4. Glaciation in the Huronian -- 4.5. The younger North American continents (c.2.0 to 1.5. Ga) : Nena and Columbia -- 4.5.1. The Trans-Hudson, Thelon, Wopmay and Penokean orogenies -- 4.5.2. The Trans-Hudson Orogeny in eastern Canada -- 4.5.3. The Sudbury structure : a gigantic meteorite strike -- 4.5.4. Nena on the rack : the midcontinent rift --

4.6. The third North American continent (c.1.7 to 1 GA) : part of Rodinia -- 4.6.1. The Grenville Province in central Canada -- 4.6.2. the Grenville Province in eastern Canada -- 4.6.3. Granites and moon rocks of the Grenville Orogen -- 4.7. The end of Rodinia (1 Ga to 600 Ma) : Laurentia breaks free -- 4.7.1. Disappearing mountains and the formation of the Canadian shield -- 4.8. Early life in Canada -- 4.8.1. Eozoon canadense -- 4.8.2. Prokaryotes : the earliest bacteria -- 4.8.3. The Eukaryotes : building blocks of animals and plants -- 4.8.4. Life diversifies : the Cambrian explosion -- ch. 5. Giant seas cover the Shield : the interior platform -- 5.1. The big picture -- 5.1.1. The platform -- The sedimentary cover -- 5.1.3. The idea of "sequences" -- 5.1.4. Sequences in Canada -- 5.2. Earth processes that formed the sequences -- 5.2.1. The puzzles of epeirogeny and eustasy -- 5.2.2. Some events that plate tectonics cannot explain -- 5.2.3. Dynamic topography -- 5.2.4. Three surface processes driven by mantle heat -- 5.2.5. How the three processes explain the geology of Canada's interior platform -- 5.3. The geography of giant seas -- 5.3.1. Thinking about the Bahamas -- 5.3.2. Along the margins of the craton -- 5.3.3. The middle of the craton -- 5.3.4. Something different at Niagara --

5.4. Devonian rocks -- 5.4.1. Reefs and oil -- 5.4.2. Other Devonian rocks -- 5.5. Pangea interval -- 5.6. Orogeny and transgression in the cretaceous -- 5.6.1. Unrest in the west -- 5.6.2. The highest seas of all time -- 5.6.3. The seas depart -- 5.7. Marking time : global standard sections and points -- ch. 6. Building eastern Canada -- 6.1. Plate tectonics began here -- 6.1.1. The puzzle of the trilobites -- 6.1.2. The modern era begins -- 6.2. Rodinia breaks up and the Iapetus Ocean is born -- 6.3. The taconic orogeny and the closure of Iapetus -- 6.3.1. Animal life on the margins of Iapetus -- 6.3.2. The first rumblings of Iapetus closure -- 6.4. A glimpse of an ancient sea floor and the mantle below -- 6.4.1. Seeing the Moho -- 6.4.2. Pillows and smokers -- 6.5. The plate collision continues -- 6.5.1. The end of the Taconic -- 6.6. Exotic fragments arrive from Europe and Africa -- 6.6.1. The quest for Avalon: looking in Africa -- 6.6.2. Avalon arrives : the Acadian orogeny -- 6.6.3. Meguma moves in -- 6.7. The final assembly of Pangea -- 67.1. Alleghenian squeezing -- 6.7.2. The maritime rift -- 6.7.3. In the end lies the beginning -- 6.8. Pangea breaks up and the Atlantic Ocean is born -- 6.8.1. Foundering in Fundy -- 6.8.2. Hibernia's reservoirs take shape --

ch. 7. Building Arctic Canada -- 7.1. Exploring by sea and by air -- 7.2. Tectonic setting -- 7.2.1. The Canadian shield -- 7.2.2. The Arctic platform -- 7.2.3. The Franklinian basin -- 7.2.4. Sverdrup basin -- 7.2.5. Arctic coastal plain -- 7.3. Early paleozoic evolution of the Franklinian basin and Pearya -- 7.4. Tectonism and sedimentation in the Siluro-Devonian : the end of the Franklinian basin -- 7.5. The Sverdrup basin 1 : upper Paleozoic -- 7.6. The Sverdrup basin 2 : the Mesozoic -- 7.7. The final phase : Greenland's brief life as a separate plate -- 7.8. The island topography evolves -- ch. 8. Building western Canada -- 8.1. The big picture -- 8.1.1. Horses, helicopters and terranes -- 8.2. Small bugs but big clues : signposts to western Canada's origins -- 8.2.1. Wrangellia : a far travelled terrane -- 8.2.2. The Cordillera as collage of terranes -- 8.3. Pangea breaks up and western North America scoops up terranes -- 8.4. Anatomy and growth of the Canadian Cordillera -- 8.4.1. Foreland Belt and Omineca Belt -- 8.4.2. Intermontane Belt -- 8.5. The insular belt and coast belt -- 8.5.1. Arriving today... the Yakutat terrane -- 8.6. The importance of strike-slip faulting -- 8.7. Volcanoes in western Canada : legacy of an active plate margin --

8.8. The Rocky Mountains -- 8.8.1. Up and down ; but also sideways ; the key to the Rocky Mountains -- 8.8.2. Mountains and prairie are inextricably linked -- 8.8.3. The development of the fold-thrust belt -- 8.9. The western Canada sedimentary basin -- 8.9.1. Patterns of sedimentation -- 8.9.2. Cycles of sedimentation -- 8.9.3. The sculpting of the modern foothills and prairies -- 8.10. The Rockies and the basin "North of 60" -- 8.10.1. The Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin -- ch. 9. Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- 9.1. Frozen history : Canada's glacial heritage -- 9.1.1. What exactly is a glacier? -- 9.1.2. Erratics : wandering boulders -- 9.2. continental ice sheets : the discovery of ice ages -- 9.2.1. Louis Agassiz's "great plough" -- 9.2.2. John William Dawson and icebergs -- 9.2.3. Joseph B. Tyrrell and the great Canadian ice sheet -- 9.3. Countdown to cold -- 9.3.1. Plate tectonics and the start of global cooling after 55 Ma -- 9.3.2. The deep freeze comes to Canada (c. 3 Ma) -- 9.3.3. The deep sea record of climate : astronomical controls on ice ages -- 9.4. TimesL(ice)s of the last (Laurentide) ice sheet -- 9.4.1. The ice sheet start to grow (110 ka) -- 9.4.2. The ice sheet reaches its maximum size (20 ka) --

9.4.3. The ice sheet melts : the Holocene begins (10 ka) -- 9.4.4. The answer to the climate puzzle may lie in space -- 9.4.5. The future? -- 9.5. Glacial landforms and landscapes in Canada -- 9.5.1. Canadian shield -- 9.5.2. The plains of western and central Canada -- 9.5.3. The Cordillera -- 9.5.4. The offshore record -- ch. 10. Rocky resources : mining in Canada -- 10.1. About 11,000 years ago : Canada's first mines -- 10.2. 1000 Ce, the Europeans arrive -- 10.3. Mid 1800s : the birth of the modern mining industry -- 10.3.1. Going underground : the first hard rock mines -- 10.4. Late 1800s : railways and mining -- 10.4.1. Sudbury copper and nickel -- 10.4.2. Cobalt silver -- 10.5. Gold in western Canada -- 10.5.1. Placer gold -- 10.5.2. The 1858 gold rush and the Province of British Columbia -- 10.5.3. The 1896 gold rush in the Yukon Territory -- 10.6. Iron -- 10.6.1. Iron formations -- 10.6.2. Labrador : the iron centre of Canada -- 10.6.3. Bell Island, Newfoundland : mining ironstone under the sea -- 10.7. Nickel -- 10.7.1. Voisey's Bay, Labrador -- 10.8. Diamonds : facets of a new industry -- 10.8.1. North America's first diamond (1843) -- 10.8.2. Recent discoveries -- 10.9. Mining ancient ocean floors : the importance of hydrothermal alteration -- 10.9.1. Volcanogenic massive sulphides of the Archean-- 10.9.2. VMS deposits of the Ordovician Iapetus Ocean -- 10.9.3. Cretaceous VMS deposits of British Columbia --

10.9.4. Hydrothermal lode gold -- 10.9.5. Water under the volcano : porphyry deposits -- 10.10. Skarn deposits -- 10.11. Deep weathering and mineral deposits in Canada -- 10.12. Uranium -- 10.13. Oil and gas -- 1-0.13.1. The international oil industry begins (1858) -- 10.13.2. Mining for oil : Canada's tar sands industry -- 10.13.3. Natural gas -- 10.13.4. Gas hydrates : energy from ice -- 10.14. Coal -- 10.14.1. coalbed methane -- 10.15. Potash and salt -- 10.16. Building with rock -- 10.17. The future -- ch. 11. Challenges for the future -- 11.1. From geology to geoscience -- 11.2. Water resources and their protection -- 11.2.1. Urban development and water -- 11.2.2. Cleaning up our mess -- 11.2.3. Case histories -- 11.3. The tectonic threat : earthquakes -- 11.3.1. Seismic zones in Canada -- 11.4. Unstable slopes -- 11.4.1. Case histories -- 11.5. Climate change -- 11.5.1. The climate-change debate -- 11.5.2. Living with changing climate : permafrost in Canada's far north -- 11.5.3. Canada's Arctic challenge -- 11.5.4. Ice shelf disintegration on Ellesmere Island : signs of a climatic crisis? -- 11.6. Geology and our health -- ch. 12. Geology and the building of a Canadian identity -- 12.1. Geology gains momentum.