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Prentice Hall EARTH SCIENCE. Tarbuck Lutgens. . Chapter 13. Earth’s History. Precambrian History. 13.1 Precambrian Time: Vast and Puzzling. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Prentice Hall EARTH SCIENCEEARTH SCIENCE
Tarbuck Lutgens
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Chapter
1313Earth’s History
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Precambrian History
13.1 Precambrian Time: Vast and Puzzling
The Precambrian encompasses immense geological time, from Earth’s distant beginnings 4.56 billion years ago until the start of the Cambrian period, over 4 billion years later.
Precambrian Rocks• Shields are large, relatively flat expanses of
ancient metamorphic rock within the stable continental interior.
• Much of what we know about Precambrian rocks comes from ores mined from shields.
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Geologic Time Scale
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Remnants of Precambrian Rocks
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Precambrian History
13.1 Precambrian Time: Vast and Puzzling
Earth’s Atmosphere Evolves• Earth’s original atmosphere was made up of
gases similar to those released in volcanic eruptions today—water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and several trace gases, but no oxygen.
• Later, primary plants evolved that used photosynthesis and released oxygen.
• Oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere about 2.5 billion years ago.
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Precambrian History
13.1 Precambrian Time: Vast and Puzzling
Precambrian Fossils• The most common Precambrian fossils are
stromatolites.
• Stromatolites are distinctively layered mounds or columns of calcium carbonate. They are not the remains of actual organisms but are the material deposited by algae.
• Many of these ancient fossils are preserved in chert—a hard dense chemical sedimentary rock.
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Early Paleozoic
13.2 Paleozoic Era: Life Explodes
Following the long Precambrian, the most recent 540 million years of Earth’s history are divided into three eras: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.
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Early Paleozoic
13.2 Paleozoic Era: Life Explodes
Early Paleozoic History• During the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian
periods, the vast southern continent of Gondwana encompassed five continents (South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and part of Asia).
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Gondwana and the Continental Landmasses
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Early Paleozoic
13.2 Paleozoic Era: Life Explodes
Early Paleozoic Life• Life in early Paleozoic time was restricted to the
seas.
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Life in the Ordovician Period
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Late Paleozoic
13.2 Paleozoic Era: Life Explodes
Late Paleozoic History• Laurasia is the continental mass that formed the
northern portion of Pangaea, consisting of present-day North America and Eurasia.
• By the end of the Paleozoic, all the continents had fused into the supercontinent of Pangaea.
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Late Paleozoic Plate Movements
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Late Paleozoic
13.2 Paleozoic Era: Life Explodes
Late Paleozoic Life• Some 400 million years ago, plants that had
adapted to survive at the water’s edge began to move inland, becoming land plants.
• The amphibians rapidly diversified because they had minimal competition from other land dwellers.
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Armor-Plated Fish
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Model of a Pennsylvanian Coal Swamp
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The Great Paleozoic Extinction
13.2 Paleozoic Era: Life Explodes
The world’s climate became very seasonal, probably causing the dramatic extinction of many species.
The late Paleozoic extinction was the greatest of at least five mass extinctions to occur over the past 500 million years.
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Mesozoic Era
13.3 Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles
Dinosaurs were land-dwelling reptiles that thrived during the Mesozoic era.
Mesozoic History • A major event of the Mesozoic era was the
breakup of Pangaea.
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Mesozoic Era Mesozoic Life
13.3 Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles
• Gymnosperms are seed-bearing plants that do not depend on free-standing water for fertilization.
• The gymnosperms quickly became the dominant plants of the Mesozoic era.
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Canadian Rockies Were Formed Throughout the Cretaceous Period
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Mesozoic Era The Shelled Egg
13.3 Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles
• Unlike amphibians, reptiles have shell-covered eggs that can be laid on the land.
• The elimination of a water-dwelling stage (like the tadpole stage in frogs) was an important evolutionary step.
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Mesozoic Era Reptiles Dominate
13.3 Mesozoic Era: Age of Reptiles
• With the perfection of the shelled egg, reptiles quickly became the dominant land animals.
• At the end of the Mesozoic era, many reptile groups became extinct.
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The Flying Reptile Pteranodon
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Fossil Skull of an Extinct Crocodile
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Cenozoic North America The Cenozoic era is divided into two
periods of very unequal duration, the Tertiary period and the Quaternary period.
13.4 Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals
Plate interactions during the Cenozoic era caused many events of mountain building, volcanism, and earthquakes in the West.
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Cenozoic Life Mammals—animals that bear live young
and maintain a steady body temperature— replaced reptiles as the dominant land animals in the Cenozoic era.
13.4 Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals
Angiosperms—flowering plants with covered seeds—replaced gymnosperms as the dominant land plants.
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Cenozoic Life Mammals Replace Reptiles
13.4 Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals
• Adaptations like being warm blooded, developing insulating body hair, and having more efficient heart and lungs allow mammals to lead more active lives than reptiles.
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Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits
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Cenozoic Life Large Mammals and Extinction
13.4 Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals
• In North America, the mastodon and mammoth, both huge relatives of the elephant, became extinct. In addition, saber-toothed cats, giant beavers, large ground sloths, horses, camels, giant bison, and others died out on the North American continent.
• The reason for this recent wave of extinctions puzzles scientists.