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Essentials of geology /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Boston
Pearson
2015
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| Edition: | Twelfth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to geology
- Matter and minerals
- Igneous rocks and intrusive activity
- Volcanoes and volcanic hazards
- Weathering and soils
- Sedimentary rocks
- Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks
- Mass wasting : the work of gravity
- Running water
- Groundwater
- Glaciers and glaciation
- Deserts and wind
- Shorelines
- Earthquakes and earth's interior
- Plate tectonics : a scientific revolution unfolds
- Origin and evolution of the ocean floor
- Crustal deformation and mountain building
- Geologic time
- Earth's evolution through geologic time
- Global climate change.