Physical Geology

Physical Geology

Earth Revealed

McGeary, David; Plummer, Charles C.

McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

09/1997

497

Mixed media product

Inglês

9780071153911

0071153918

1270

This edition covers physical geology, plate tectonics, and the internal and surface processes of the Earth. It also includes up-to-date coverage of geologic events including The Great Flood of 1993, the Northridge earthquake of 1994, the Kobe earthquake, sea floor material and mountain building.
Introduction to physical geology; the Earth's interior; the sea floor; plate tectonics; mountain belts and the continental crust; geologic structures; earthquakes; time and geology; atoms, elements and minerals; volcanism and extrusive rocks; intrusive activity and the origin of igneous rocks; weathering and soil; mass wasting; sediments and sedimentary rocks; metamorphism, metamorphic rocks and hydrothermal rocks; streams and landscapes; ground water; deserts and wind action; glaciers and glaciation; waves, beaches and coasts; geologic resources.
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