Understanding earth
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Understanding earth
W.H. Freeman, c1998
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Note
1 computer laser optial disc (4 3/4 in.)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written as an introductory text to physical geology, this edition has been updated and revised to include: a strongly environmental emphasis; a new chapter on Earth systems; and especially created line drawings, maps and photographs of landforms worldwide.
Table of Contents
- Building a planet
- minerals - building blocks of rocks
- rocks - records of geologic processes
- igneous rocks - solids from melts
- volcanism
- weathering and erosion
- sediments and sedimentary rocks
- metamorphic rocks
- the rock record and the geologic time scale
- folds, faults and other records of rock deformation
- mass wasting
- the hydrologic cycle and groundwater
- rivers - transport to the oceans
- winds and deserts
- glaciers - the work of ice
- landscape evolution
- the oceans
- earthquakes
- exploring Earth's interior
- plate tectonics - the unifying theory
- deformation of the continental crust
- Earth systems and cycles
- energy resources from the Earth
- mineral resources from the Earth.
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