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Understanding Earth
Understanding Earth is designed to bring the worldview of the working geologist to an audience new to learning about science. Students aren't merely presented with concepts and processes - they come to learn how we know what we know, and how that knowledge impacts their lives as citizens and he...
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.H. Freeman and Company,
[2014].
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| Edición: | 7th edition. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The earth system
- Plate tectonics : the unifying theory
- Earth materials : minerals and rocks
- Igneous rocks : solids from melts
- Sedimentation : rocks formed by surface processes
- Metamorphism : alteration of rocks by temperature and pressure
- Deformation : modification of rocks by folding and fracturing
- Clocks in rocks : timing the geologic record
- Early history of the terrestrial planets
- History of the continents
- Geobiology : life interacts with Earth
- Volcanoes
- Earthquakes
- Exploring earth's interior
- The climate system
- Weathering, erosion, and mass wasting : interactions between the climate and plate tectonic systems
- The hydrologic cycle and groundwater
- Stream transport : from mountains to oceans
- Winds and deserts
- Coastlines and ocean basins
- Glaciers : the work of ice
- Landscape development
- The human impact on Earth's environment.