Earth: Portrait of a Planet 5th Edition (eBook PDF) – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
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- ISBN-10 : 0393281493
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393281491
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Table contents:
Part I Our Island in Space
Chapter 1 Cosmology and the Birth of Earth 15
Chapter 2 Journey to the Center of the Earth 35
Chapter 3 Drifting Continents and Spreading Seas 51
Chapter 4 The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics 77
Part II Earth Materials
Chapter 5 Patterns in Nature: Minerals 109
Interlude A Rock Groups 129
Chapter 6 Up from the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks 137
Chapter 7 A Surface Veneer: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks 163
Chapter 8 Change in the Solid State: Metamorphic Rocks 203
Interlude B The Rock Cycle 227
Part III Tectonic Activity of a Dynamic Planet
Chapter 9 The Wrath of Vulcan: Volcanic Eruptions 237
Chapter 10 A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes 269
Interlude C Seeing Inside the Earth 308
Chapter 11 Crags, Cracks, and Crumples: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building 319
Part IV History Before History
Interlude D Memories of Past Life: Fossils and Evolution 352
Chapter 12 Deep Time: How Old Is Old? 365
Chapter 13 A Biography of Earth 395
Part V Earth Resources
Chapter 14 Squeezing Power from a Stone: Energy Resources 427
Chapter 15 Riches in Rock: Mineral Resources 453
Part VI Processes and Problems at the Earth’s Surface
Interlude E Ever-Changing Landscapes and the Hydrologic Cycle 472
Chapter 16 Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements 481
Chapter 17 Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running Water 507
Chapter 18 Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts 545
Chapter 19 A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater 581
Chapter 20 An Envelope of Gas: Earth’s Atmosphere and Climate 611
Chapter 21 Dry Regions: The Geology of Deserts 645
Chapter 22 Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages 667
Chapter 23 Global Change in the Earth System 707
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