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Physical geology / Charles C. Plummer; Diane H. Carlson; Lisa Hammersley

By: Plummer, Charles C.
Contributor(s): Carlson, Diane H | Hammersley, Lisa.
New York, NY, USA : McGraw-Hill Education, ©2019Edition: Sixteenth edition.Description: xx, 599, A-13, G-15, I-19 pages : colored illustrations ; 28 cm.ISBN: 9781260091656 (pbk).Subject(s): Physical geology -- Textbooks | Geology -- TextbooksDDC classification: 551 P73
Contents:
Introducing geology, the essentials of plate tectonics, and other important concepts -- Atoms, elements, and minerals -- Igneous rocks, the origin and evolution of magma, and intrusive activity -- Volcanism and extrusive rocks -- Weathering and soil -- Sediment and sedimentary rocks -- Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks -- Time and geology -- Mass wasting -- Streams and floods -- Groundwater -- Glaciers and glaciation -- Deserts and wind action -- Waves, beaches, and coasts -- Geologic structures -- Earthquakes -- Earth's interior and geophysical properties -- The sea floor -- Plate tectonics : the unifying theory -- Mountain belts and the continental crust -- Global climate change -- Resources -- The Earth's companions.
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Includes index.

Introducing geology, the essentials of plate tectonics, and other important concepts -- Atoms, elements, and minerals -- Igneous rocks, the origin and evolution of magma, and intrusive activity -- Volcanism and extrusive rocks -- Weathering and soil -- Sediment and sedimentary rocks -- Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks -- Time and geology -- Mass wasting -- Streams and floods -- Groundwater -- Glaciers and glaciation -- Deserts and wind action -- Waves, beaches, and coasts -- Geologic structures -- Earthquakes -- Earth's interior and geophysical properties -- The sea floor -- Plate tectonics : the unifying theory -- Mountain belts and the continental crust -- Global climate change -- Resources -- The Earth's companions.

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