Product Description
Chapter 1 The Earth in Context
Chapter 2 The Way the Earth Works Plate Tectonics
Chapter 3 Patterns in Nature Minerals
Chapter 4 Up from the Inferno Magma and Igneous Rocks
Chapter 5 The Wrath of Vulcan Volcanic Eruptions
Chapter 6 Pages of the Earth’s Past Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 7 Metamorphism A Process of Change
Chapter 8 A Violent Pulse Earthquakes
Chapter 9 Crags, Cracks, and Crumples Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building
Chapter 10 Deep Time How Old Is Old?
Chapter 11 A Biography of the Earth
Chapter 12 Riches in Rock Energy and Mineral Resources
Chapter 13 Unsafe Ground Landslides and Other Mass Movements
Chapter 14 Streams and Floods The Geology of Running Water
Chapter 15 Restless Realm Oceans and Coasts
Chapter 16 A Hidden Reserve Groundwater
Chapter 17 Dry Regions The Geology of Deserts
Chapter 18 Amazing Ice Glaciers and Ice Ages
Chapter 19 Global Change in the Earth System
Interlude A Introducing Rocks
Interlude B A Surface Veneer Sediments and Soils
Interlude C The Rock Cycle
Interlude D The Earth’s Interior Revisited Insights from Geophysics
Interlude E Memories of Past Life Fossils and Evolution
Interlude F Ever-Changing Landscapes and the Hydrologic Cycle
Prelude And Just What is Geology?