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Helping you learn what a Geologist sees. The fifth edition of the bestselling textbook features stunning art, the most up-to-date science, and a wealth of online learning tools, all developed under the critical eyes of Stephen Marshak. Heavily revised with remarkably detailed photographs, animations, and maps, the text offers rich and engaging pedagogy, an expanded chapter on energy, and coverage of recent global events from Hurricane Sandy and the Washington Landslide to Typhoon Haiyan and the Japanese Tsunami. PART I: OUR ISLAND IN SPACE 1.
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Cosmology and the Birth of Earth 2. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3. Drifting Continents and Spreading Seas 4. The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics PART II: EARTH MATERIALS 5. Patterns in Nature: Minerals Interlude A: Introducing Rocks 6.
Up from the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks Interlude B: A Surface Veneer: Sediments and Soils 7. Pages of Earth’s Past: Sedimentary Rocks 8. Metamorphism: A Process of Change Interlude C: The Rock Cycle in the Earth System PART III: TECTONIC ACTIVITY OF A DYNAMIC PLANET 9. The Wrath of Vulcan: Volcanic Eruptions 10. A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes Interlude D: The Earth’s Interior-Revisited: Seismic Layering, Gravity, and the Magnetic Field 11. Crags, Cracks, and Crumples: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building PART IV: HISTORY BEFORE HISTORY Interlude E: Memories of Past Life: Fossils and Evolution 12. Deep Time: How Old Is Old?
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A Biography of Earth PART V: EARTH RESOURCES 14. Squeezing Power from a Stone: Energy Resources 15. Riches in Rock: Mineral Resources PART VI: PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS AT THE EARTH’S SURFACE Interlude F: Ever-Changing Landscapes and the Hydrologic Cycle 16. Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements 17.
Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running Water 18. Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts 19. A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater 20. An Envelope of Gas: Earth’s Atmosphere and Climate 21.
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Dry Regions: The Geology of Deserts 22. Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages 23. Global Change in the Earth System.
Earth: Portrait Of A Planet By Marshak
Helping you teach What a Geologist Sees. The Fifth Edition of this bestselling textbook features stunning art, the most up-to-date science, and a wealth of online learning tools, all developed under the critical eyes of Stephen Marshak. Heavily revised with remarkably detailed photographs, animations, and maps, the text offers rich and engaging pedagogy, an expanded chapter on energy, and coverage of recent global events, from Hurricane Sandy and the Washington Landslide to Typhoon Haiyan and the Japanese Tsunami.
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