Visualizing geology
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Visualizing geology
(Wiley visualizing)
Wiley, c2012
3rd ed
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Geology
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Murck's 3rd edition of Visualizing Geology maximizes the use of National Geographic Society photographs, maps, illustrations and video to bring dynamic Earth processes. From the ground-up, this text is designed to better meet the needs of those involved in the large mainstream Physical Geology course and working to attain a science credit. The text provides pedagogy to help reader s better digest more material than they would in a conventional textbook. Moreover it provides information about geology as a discipline as a dynamic and growing science, to move readers beyond the idea that geology is simply about the memorization of terms related to dead rocks.
Table of Contents
Preface 1 Earth as a Planet 2 2 Earth Materials 34 3 How Old is Old? The Rock Record and Geologic Time 64 4 Plate Tectonics 92 5 Earthquakes and Earth s Interior 118 6 Volcanoes and Igneous Rocks 150 7 Weathering and Erosion 188 8 From Sediment to Sedimentary Rock 218 9 Folds, Faults, and Geological Maps 248 10 Metamorphism: New Rock from Old 278 11 Water On and Under the Ground 306 12 The Ocean and the Atmosphere 344 13 Climatic Extremes: Deserts and Glaciers 384 14 Earth s Climates: Past, Present, Future 416 15 A Brief History of Life on Earth 454 16 Understanding Earth s Resources 492 Appendix A: Units and Their Conversions 526 Appendix B: Periodic Table of Elements 528 Appendix C: Tables of the Properties of Selected Common Minerals 529 Appendix D: Self-Test Answers 532 Glossary 533 Table and Line Art Credits 538 Photo Credits 540 Index 545
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