Essentials of Geology4th EditionMarshak, Stephen Publisher: W W Norton & Co IncISBN: 9780393919394
Essentials of Geology
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Chapter 1 - The Earth In ContextChapter 1.2 - An Image Of Our UniverseChapter 1.3 - Forming The UniverseChapter 1.4 - We Are All Made Of StardustChapter 1.5 - Welcome To The NeighborhoodChapter 1.6 - Looking Inward—introducing The Earth’s InteriorChapter 2 - The Way The Earth Works: Plate TectonicsChapter 2.2 - Wegener’s Evidence For Continental DriftChapter 2.3 - Paleomagnetism And The Proof Of Continental DriftChapter 2.4 - The Discovery Of Sea-floor Spreading
Chapter 2.6 - What Do We Mean By Plate Tectonics?Chapter 2.12 - What Drives Plate Motion, And How Fast Do Plates Move?Chapter 3 - Patterns In Nature: MineralsChapter 3.2 - What Is A Mineral?Chapter 3.6 - Something Precious—gems!Chapter 4 - Up From The Inferno: Magma And Igneous RocksChapter 4.2 - Why Does Magma Form, And What Is It Made Of?Chapter 4.5 - How Do You Describe An Igneous Rock?Chapter 5 - The Wrath Of Vulcan: Volcanic EruptionsChapter 5.2 - The Products Of Volcanic EruptionsChapter 5.6 - Protection From Vulcan’s WrathChapter 5.8 - Volcanoes On Other PlanetsChapter 6 - Pages Of Earth’s Past: Sedimentary RocksChapter 6.2 - Classes Of Sedimentary RocksChapter 7 - Metamorphism: A Process Of ChangeChapter 7.1 - IntroductionChapter 7.3 - Types Of Metamorphic RocksChapter 7.4 - Where Does Metamorphism Occur?Chapter 8 - A Violent Pulse: EarthquakesChapter 8.6 - Where And Why Do Earthquakes Occur?Chapter 8.7 - How Do Earthquakes Cause Damage?Chapter 9 - Crags, Cracks, And Crumples: Crustal Deformation And Mountain BuildingChapter 9.1 - IntroductionChapter 9.5 - Mountain BuildingChapter 10 - Deep Time: How Old Is Old?Chapter 10.4 - Unconformities: Gaps In The RecordChapter 10.7 - How Do We Determine Numerical Age?Chapter 10.8 - Numerical Age And Geologic TimeChapter 11 - A Biography Of EarthChapter 11.3 - The Archean Eon: Birth Of The Continents And LifeChapter 11.4 - The Proterozoic: The Earth In TransitionChapter 11.6 - The Mesozoic Era: When Dinosaurs RuledChapter 11.7 - The Cenozoic Era: The Modern World Comes To BeChapter 12 - Riches In Rock: Energy And Mineral ResourcesChapter 12.3 - Oil And GasChapter 12.6 - Coal: Energy From The Swamps Of The PastChapter 12.7 - Nuclear PowerChapter 12.9 - Energy Choices, Energy ProblemsChapter 12.13 - Nonmetallic Mineral ResourcesChapter 13 - Unsafe Ground: Landslides And Other Mass MovementsChapter 13.2 - Types Of Mass MovementChapter 14 - Streams And Floods: The Geology Of Running WaterChapter 14.8 - Raging WatersChapter 15 - Restless Realm: Oceans And CoastsChapter 15.5 - Wave ActionChapter 15.6 - Where Land Meets Sea: Coastal LandformsChapter 16 - A Hidden Reserve: GroundwaterChapter 16.6 - Groundwater ProblemsChapter 16.7 - Caves And KarstChapter 17 - Dry Regions: The Geology Of DesertsChapter 17.2 - The Nature And Locations Of DesertsChapter 17.5 - Desert Landscapes And LifeChapter 18 - Amazing Ice: Glaciers And Ice AgesChapter 18.2 - Ice And The Nature Of GlaciersChapter 18.6 - The Pleistocene Ice AgeChapter 19 - Global Change In The Earth SystemChapter 19.2 - Unidirectional ChangesChapter 19.5 - Global Climate Change
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The Fourth Edition offers a streamlined, engaging approach to geologic processes, presented through visuals, photographs, and text, as well as discussions of modern science phenomena.
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Ptolemy assumed that all the planets revolved around the Earth in a circular path, including the...Explanation: Alfred Wegener is a German geologist who formulated the idea of the continental drift...Explanation: “A mineral is a naturally occurring solid, formed by geologic processes, that has a...Explanation: Magma is the molten rock that is present deep inside the surface. When it reaches the...Explanation: A volcanic eruption brings materials from inside the earth to surface of the earth. The...Explanation: The erosion, transportation and deposition and subsequent compaction of sediments by...Explanation: The igneous rocks are formed when the molten magma or lava consolidates completely....Explanation: A fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there...Explanation: The Alps, is a result of collision tectonics. Here, the continental plate boundaries...
Explanation: According to the principle of uniformitarianism, we observe that there is no...Explanation: The rocks present on the surface of the earth are classified into three types based on...Explanation: There are several fundamental sources of energy in the Earth’s system and they are...Explanation: “The down slope transport of rock, regolith (soil, and loose sediment or debris), snow,...Explanation: A hydrological cycle, also known as water cycle, deals with the continuous circulation...Explanation: The Earth’s lithosphere consists of the crust and a portion of the upper mantle....Explanation: Any open space present within the rock sediment or a given volume of rock is known as...Explanation: “A desert is a region that is so arid (dry) that it supports very little vegetation.” A...Explanation: An ice age is a period in the Earth’s history in which the climates were extremely...Explanation: “The global interconnecting web of physical and biological phenomena on the Earth is...
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