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
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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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