Charles C. Plummer,
California State University at Sacramento Diane H. Carlson,
California State University at Sacramento Lisa Hammersley,
California State University at Sacramento
ISBN: 007337671x Copyright year: 2010
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 81
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 247
Chapter 11 Ground Water 283
Chapter 12 Glaciers and Glaciation 307
Chapter 13 Deserts and Wind Action 339
Chapter 14 Waves, Beaches, and Coasts 361
Chapter 15 Geologic Structures 383
Chapter 16 Earthquakes 405
Chapter 17 Earth’s Interior and Geophysical Properties 437
Chapter 18 The Sea Floor 461
Chapter 19 Plate Tectonics 483
Chapter 20 Mountain Belts and the Continental Crust 519
Chapter 21 Resources 543
Chapter 22 The Earth’s Companions 573
2010