BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 AN OVERVIEW OF CENOZOIC TIME -- GEOLOGIC PROCESSES -- CENOZOIC LIFE -- CHAPTER 2 THE TERTIARY PERIOD -- THE TERTIARY ENVIRONMENT -- PALEOGEOGRAPHY -- PALEOCLIMATE -- TERTIARY LIFE -- FLOWERING PLANTS AND GRASSES -- BIRDS -- THE RISE OF MAMMALS -- LIFE IN THE OCEANS -- TERTIARY ROCKS -- THE MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS OF THE TERTIARY SYSTEM -- THE OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF TERTIARY DEPOSITS -- ESTABLISHING TERTIARY BOUNDARIES -- THE CORRELATION OF TERTIARY STRATA -- CHAPTER 3 THE PALEOGENE PERIOD -- THE PALEOCENE EPOCH -- DANIAN STAGE -- SELANDIAN STAGE -- THANETIAN STAGE -- THE EOCENE EPOCH -- YPRESIAN STAGE -- LUTETIAN STAGE -- BARTONIAN STAGE -- PRIABONIAN STAGE -- THE OLIGOCENE EPOCH -- RUPELIAN STAGE -- CHATTIAN STAGE -- SIGNIFICANT LIFE-FORMS OF THE PALEOGENE PERIOD -- ARSINOITHERIUM -- BARYLAMBDA -- BASILOSAURUS -- BORHYAENIDAE -- BRONTOTHERE -- CORYPHODON -- DAWN HORSE -- DIATRYMA -- HYAENODON -- INDRICOTHERIUM -- LITOPTERN -- MESOHIPPUS -- MIACIS -- MIOHIPPUS -- MOERITHERIUM -- NOTHARCTUS -- NOTOUNGULATA -- NUMMULITES -- OLIVE SHELL -- PHENACODUS -- PTILODUS -- SABRE-TOOTHED CATS -- TAENIODONT -- TITANOTHERE -- UINTATHERIUM -- VENERICARDIA -- CHAPTER 4 THE NEOGENE PERIOD -- THE MIOCENE EPOCH -- AQUITANIAN STAGE -- BURDIGALIAN STAGE -- LANGHIAN STAGE -- SERRAVALLIAN STAGE -- TORTONIAN STAGE -- MESSINIAN STAGE -- THE PLIOCENE EPOCH -- ZANCLEAN STAGE -- PIACENZIAN STAGE -- SIGNIFICANT LIFE-FORMS OF THE NEOGENE PERIOD -- CAMELOPS -- CAVE BEAR -- CHALICOTHERIUM -- DINOHYUS -- DRYOPITHECUS -- GIGANTOPITHECUS -- GLANS -- GLYPTODON -- MASTODON -- MERYCHIPPUS -- MOROPUS -- OREOPITHECUS -- PLIOHIPPUS -- RAMAPITHECUS -- RIVERSLEIGH FOSSILS -- SIVAPITHECUS -- THYLACOSMILUS -- CHAPTER 5 THE QUATERNARY PERIOD -- THE QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENT -- GLACIATION -- SEA-LEVEL CHANGES.

PALEOCLIMATE -- QUATERNARY LIFE -- FAUNA AND FLORA -- HOMININ EVOLUTION -- QUATERNARY GEOLOGY -- THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF QUATERNARY DEPOSITS -- TYPES OF QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS -- THE CORRELATION OF QUATERNARY DEPOSITS -- SIGNIFICANT LIFE-FORMS OF THE QUATERNARY PERIOD -- AEPYORNIS -- CASTOROIDES -- DIPROTODON -- DIRE WOLF -- IRISH ELK -- MAMMOTH -- MEGATHERIUM -- MYLODON -- TOXODON -- WOOLLY RHINOCEROS -- CHAPTER 6 THE PLEISTOCENE EPOCH -- PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY -- THE MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORD -- LOESS-PALEOSOL RECORDS -- GLACIAL RECORDS -- ICE-CORE RECORDS -- THE PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY -- STAGES OF THE PLEISTOCENE EPOCH -- GELASIAN STAGE -- CALABRIAN STAGE -- IONIAN STAGE -- TARANTIAN STAGE -- PLEISTOCENE EVENTS AND ENVIRONMENTS -- GLACIATION -- PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS -- LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENTS -- FLUVIAL ENVIRONMENTS -- COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SEA-LEVEL CHANGES -- EOLIAN ACTIVITY -- TECTONIC AND ISOSTATIC MOVEMENTS -- PLEISTOCENE FAUNA AND FLORA -- EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES -- THE MIGRATION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS -- MEGAFAUNAL EXTINCTIONS -- CAUSE OF THE CLIMATIC CHANGES AND GLACIATIONS -- CHAPTER 7 THE HOLOCENE EPOCH -- HOLOCENE STRATIGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY AND CORRELATION -- THE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY -- THE NATURE OF THE HOLOCENE RECORD -- DEEP OCEANIC DEPOSITS -- CONTINENTAL SHELF AND COASTAL REGIONS -- OTHER COASTAL REGIONS -- HOLOCENE ENVIRONMENT AND BIOTA -- FLORAL CHANGE -- FAUNAL CHANGE -- HOLOCENE CLIMATIC TRENDS AND CHRONOLOGY -- CHAPTER 8 THE CENOZOIC AND BEYOND -- GLOSSARY -- FOR FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.