Earth : an introduction to geologic change
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Earth : an introduction to geologic change
Prentice Hall, c1995
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Includes index
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Description
This is a core text for a first course in geology. Two outstanding educators present the basics of solid earth geology through the organizational concept of change.
Table of Contents
- Changing earth
- transition I - changes in earth materials
- minerals and matter
- igneous rocks
- weathering and soils
- sedimentary rocks
- metamorphic rocks
- geologic time
- transition II - changes within the earth
- heat and magmas
- earthquakes and earth structure
- deformation
- plate tectonics - growth of an idea
- cartons, origins, and plate boundaries
- transition III - changes at the earth's surface
- mass movement
- streams and stream systems
- ground water
- glaciers and glaciation
- coasts and coastal processes
- wind and deserts
- transition IV - humans and earth change
- energy and mineral resources
- people and environmental change.
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