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Earth : portrait of a planet / Stephen Marshak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshak, Stephen, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geology--Textbooks.
- Geology.
- Genre:
- Textbooks
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 929, 2, 28, 5, 44 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Seventh edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The gold standard text for helping students visualize and understand geologic processes makes hands-on and real-world exploration easier and more impactful than ever, in any course setting"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- And just what is geology
- Cosmology and the birth of the earth
- Journey to the center of the earth
- Drifting continents and spreading seas
- the way the earth works : plate tectonics
- Patterns in nature : minerals
- Introducing rocks
- Up from the inferno : magma and igneous rocks
- A surface veneer : sediments and soils
- Pages of the earth's past : sedimentary rocks
- Metamorphism : a process of change
- The rock cycle in the earth system
- The wrath of Vulcan : volcanic eruptions
- A violent pulse : earthquakes
- The earth's interior, refisited : seismic layering, gravity, and the magnetic field
- Crags, cracks and crumples : geologic structures and mountain guilding
- Memories of past life : fossils and evolution
- Deep time : how old is old"
- A biography of the earth
- Squeezing power from a stond : energy resources
- Riches in rock : mineral resources
- Ever-changing landscapes and the hydrologic cycle
- Unsafe ground : landslides and other mass wasting
- Streams and floods : the geology of running water
- Restless realm : oceans and coasts
- A hidden reserve : groundwater
- An envelope of gas : the earth's atmosphere and climate
- Dry regions : the geology of deserts
- Amazing ice : glaciers and ice ages
- Global change in the earth system.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Additional pagination at end for appendices and index enumerated A-1-2, G-1-28, C-1-5, and I-1-44.
- ISBN:
- 9780393882742
- 0393882748
- OCLC:
- 1289261208
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