Earth
Pearson
978-0-13-241066-3 (ISBN)
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For introductory courses in Physical Geology.
This trusted text, the market's best-seller, makes an often complex subject accessible to beginning students with a strong focus on readability and illustrations. It offers a meaningful, non-technical survey that is informative and up to date for learning basic principles and concepts. This revision introduces a new chapter on global climate change that develops a greater understanding of this important environmental issue. Additionally, a new chapter on Earth’s evolution through geologic time allows instructors the flexibility to have a separate discussion of Earth’s physical history and the evolution of life.
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Geology Chapter 2 Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds
Chapter 3 Matter and Minerals
Chapter 4 Igneous Rocks Chapter 5 Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity
Chapter 6 Weathering and Soil
Chapter 7 Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 8 Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
Chapter 9 Geologic Time Chapter 10 Crustal Deformation
Chapter 11 Earthquakes
Chapter 12 Earth’s Interior
Chapter 13 Divergent Boundaries: Origin and Evolution of the Ocean Floor
Chapter 14 Convergent Boundaries: Mountain Building and the Evolution of the Continents
Chapter 15 Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity
Chapter 16 Running Water
Chapter 17 Groundwater
Chapter 18 Glaciers and Glaciation
Chapter 19 Deserts and Winds
Chapter 20 Shorelines
Chapter 21 Global Climate Change
Chapter 22 Earth’s Evolution Through Geologic Time
Chapter 23 Energy and Mineral Resources
Chapter 24 Planetary Geology
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.3.2007 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 228 x 276 mm |
| Gewicht | 1620 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-13-241066-4 / 0132410664 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-13-241066-3 / 9780132410663 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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