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Full Description
The overarching goal of Physical Geology: Investigating Earth is to provide students with a basic understanding of geology and its processes and, most importantly, with an understanding of how geology relates to the human experience—that is, how geology affects individuals, society, and nation-states.
Contents
1. Understanding Earth: A Dynamic and Evolving Planet
2. Plate Tectonics: A Unifying Theory
3. Minerals: The Building Blocks of Rocks
4. Igneous Rocks and Intrusive Igneous Activity
5. Volcanoes and Volcanism
6. Weathering, Erosion, and Soil
7. Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks
8. Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
9. Earthquakes
10. Earth's Interior
11. Deformation, Mountain Building, and the Continents
12. Mass Wasting
13. Running Water
14. Groundwater
15. Glaciers and Glaciation
16. The Work of Wind and Deserts
17. Oceans, Shorelines, and Shoreline Processes
18. Geologic Time: Concepts and Principles