Author: Jack Fleming
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781723964046
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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GEOLOGY: Rocks, Minerals, and Landforms are written to have the reader develop a well-rounded knowledge of geology. This book includes interesting facts and topics such as volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, deserts, glaciers, geologic discoveries, crystals, fossils, energy, a career path in geology, experiments, activities, geology merit badge requirements, and much more. This book is designed for all levels of interest, including parents, teachers, students, badge counselors, and hobby enthusiast. This is a great book for your library and a great reference source. This book contains many photographs, diagrams, and charts. We highly recommend this book which will soon become a best seller. Please write a friendly review for us. Thank you - Jack
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615305823
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Anyone who has marveled at the glimmer of a perfectly cut diamond, tended a garden, or consumed a nutritious meal has appreciated some of the many roles that minerals play in our lives. Present in many natural substances, minerals are highly structured entities, each with a unique chemical composition and set of properties. Accompanied by detailed tables, diagrams, and sidebars, this informative volume examines the various types of minerals and their structures and classifications, as well as the physical and chemical attributes that separate one mineral from another.
Author: John Gerrard
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401159831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Geomorphology can be defined simply as the study of landforms. Landforms are the result of the interaction between what Ritter (1978) has called the driving and resisting forces. The driving forces or processes are the methods by which energy is exerted on earth materials and include both surface, geomorphological or exogenous processes and subsurface, geological or endogenous processes. The resisting forces are the surface materials with their inherent resistances determined by a complex combination of rock properties. Stated in these simple terms it would be expected that both sides of the equation be given equal weight in syntheses of landform evolution. However, this has not been the case. Until about the 1950s, geomorphology was mainly descriptive and concerned with producing time-dependent models of landscape evolution. Although the form of the land was the main focus, there was little detailed mention of process and scant attention to the properties of surface materials. There were, of course, exceptions. In the late 19th century G.K. Gilbert was stressing the equilibrium between landforms and processes. Many hydrologists were examining the detailed workings of river 'systems and drainage basins, culminating in the classic paper of Horton (1945).
Author: John P Rafferty
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 9781615306367
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Minerals and rocks are remnants of the planet's most ancient history and custodians of its geologic secrets. While a great deal remains to be discovered about Earth's origins and the earliest stages of its development, much of its past is indelibly chronicled in the inorganic material that comprises its surface and transforms its landscapes. These intriguing volumes examine the basic components of the planet--from topographic landforms to the molten rocks at Earth's core--and the geologic processes that affect them, as well as the various disciplines dedicated to deciphering these relationships. - Illustrations highlight key structures and concepts - Charts detail significant landforms and mineral types - Informative sidebars examine related concepts and ideas
Author: M.D. Picard
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468464442
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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In this collection of essays, M. Dane (`Duke') Picard takes the reader on journeys across deserts, mountains, canyons, and rivers from the American Southwest to Italy and France. His blend of vivid description and humor evokes the rugged days of field petroleum geology in the Great Plains and pastel Badlands of Utah and Wyoming in the 1950s and later days unlocking the geological secrets of sandstone in the Rockies. Along the way, he pokes gentle fun at the academic life in stories that will make anyone smile who's ever sat on a faculty committee or chaired a professional meeting. The final essays on his travels through Provence and Italy are rich with details of the beauty and the history - both human and geological - of the regions. M.D. Picard is the author of numerous professional articles and books, and has served as president of the National Association of Geology Teachers, the Society of Sedimentary Geology, and the Rocky Mountain section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is well known to the geological community for the essays and book reviews he has published over the last ten years in geoscience journals and magazines.
Author: Charles Rowland Twidale
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781439833704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Granite is exposed over more than 15% of the continents, implying that its significance to the Earth’s surface is comparable to that of the carbonates. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains is devoted to this phenomenon and provides a comprehensive explanation of the landforms and landscapes developed on granitic rocks and forms. Whereas existing literature in the field predominantly deals with karst landscapes, this book is specifically focussed on granitic terrains. Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains provides detailed considerations of the forms, major and minor, well-known and not so familiar granitic terrains, developed over large areas of the continents. It comprises interpretations which are of general significance in the analysis and understanding of the landscape and includes many theories in the context of granite landforms. The importance of structure, including crystal stresses, and the value of etching of subsurface initiation, multi-stages or two-stages development, neotectonic forms, solution forms is emphasized as well as the antiquity of some forms and surfaces (inherited forms). Morphogenetic forms are placed in perspective and comparison is made with similar forms in other rock types. This work is intended for geologists, geomorphologists, geographers and mining engineers and can serve both as a practical guide for professionals and as a textbook for university courses. Author, location and subject indices are included.
Author: Rex Buchanan
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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A profusely illustrated nontechnical survey of the state's geological landforms and features.
Author: Steven Earle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537068824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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This is a discount Black and white version. Some images may be unclear, please see BCCampus website for the digital version.This book was born out of a 2014 meeting of earth science educators representing most of the universities and colleges in British Columbia, and nurtured by a widely shared frustration that many students are not thriving in courses because textbooks have become too expensive for them to buy. But the real inspiration comes from a fascination for the spectacular geology of western Canada and the many decades that the author spent exploring this region along with colleagues, students, family, and friends. My goal has been to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to the important topics of geology, richly illustrated with examples from western Canada. Although this text is intended to complement a typical first-year course in physical geology, its contents could be applied to numerous other related courses.
Author: Martin F. Schmidt
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Written for the interested layman or sturdent with no specialized training, this book explains the basics of geological processes, and then shows how they worked to create Maryland's beautiful and fascinating landforms.
Author: Herman Schneider
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486782018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Book Description
This illustrated introduction to geology offers young readers insights into everyday signs of our constantly changing environment. Fascinating subjects include rivers of ice, the rise of volcanoes, and the formation of precious stones.
