Charles C. Plummer,
California State University at Sacramento Diane H. Carlson,
California State University at Sacramento Lisa Hammersley,
California State University at Sacramento
ISBN: 0073369381 Copyright year: 2013
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing Geology, the Essentials of Plate Tectonics, and Other Important Concepts 3
Chapter 2 Atoms, Elements, and Minerals 29
Chapter 3 Igneous Rocks, Intrusive Activity, and the Origin of Igneous Rocks 55
Chapter 4 Volcanism and Extrusive Rocks 83
Chapter 5 Weathering and Soil 113
Chapter 6 Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks 137
Chapter 7 Metamorphism, Metamorphic Rocks, and Hydrothermal Rocks 169
Chapter 8 Time and Geology 193
Chapter 9 Mass Wasting 221
Chapter 10 Streams and Floods 249
Chapter 11 Groundwater 285
Chapter 12 Glaciers and Glaciation 307
Chapter 13 Deserts and Wind Action 309
Chapter 14 Waves, Beaches, and Coasts 363
Chapter 15 Geologic Structures 385
Chapter 16 Earthquakes 407
Chapter 17 Earth’s Interior and Geophysical Properties 439
Chapter 18 The Sea Floor 463
Chapter 19 Plate Tectonics - The Unifying Theory 485
Chapter 20 Mountain Belts and the Continental Crust 521
Chapter 21 Global Climate Change 545
Chapter 22 Resources 571
Chapter 23 The Earth’s Companions 601
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