Physical geology
Charles C. Plummer, Diane H. Carlson, David McGeary
574 pages, parution le 15/03/2002
Résumé
Physical Geology is a market-leading classic that has been
used in classrooms for over twenty years. Updated to
include the latest technology and most current information,
Physical Geology is for both non-science majors and for
students contemplating majoring in geology. The beautiful
new art program and interactive writing style will grab
student's attention and further their interest in Geology.
New to this edition
- To help students visualize and comprehend difficult concepts, the art program has been revamped by enhancing over 150 figures, many as 3-dimensional art! On the Online Learning Center, students will find over 60 of these figures have been converted into animations and 12 figures into active art.
- Access to PowerWeb Geology, a course-specific website developed with the help of instructors teaching the course to provide instructors and students with curriculum-based materials, updated weekly assessments, informative and timely world news, refereed web links and much more.
- Integration of the text and the Internet. With the Ninth Edition, the authors have added boxes that have a brief summary in the book, while the complete boxes are accessible through the book's website. URLs of excellent and appropriate websites have been added in the text and figure captions and can also be found on the website.
- Many chapters have been updated and reorganized with the most current information available.
- With this edition comes a robust text-specific website that is resourceful for both instructors and students. Instructors will find an instructor's manual, downloadable images from the text (including new active art), PowerPoint lecture presentations, and more! Students will be able to access a study guide, 3-D animations of difficult concepts, interactive quizzing, photo flashcards, and more!
- Available on the text-specific website is a link to David McConnell's The Good Earth, an online supplement which has text-related modules that provide enhancement and supplemental material to support Physical Geology, 9/e. Features of the site include animations, text material, study aids, quizzing, interactive web activities, and links.
- To help instructors create exciting lecture presentations, the 9th edition has a Digital Content Manager CD-ROM that contains 12 pieces of active art, 59 new Flash animations, 385 color images from the text, 284 photos from the text, all the tables from the text, and chapter-specific PowerPoint Lecture Outlines.
- Each chapter contains at least one of 3 types of boxes:--In Greater Depth boxes cover interesting topics that are usually not an essential part of an introductory geology course.--Environmental Geology boxes show how material pertaining to physical geology relates environmental concerns, such as oil spills, exploiting natural resources and mitigating natural disasters.--Astrogeology boxes relate topics discussed in the text to what has been discovered on other planets or the solar system.
- 1 Introduction to Physical Geology
- 2 Atoms, Elements, and Minerals
- 3 Igneous Rocks, Intrusive Activity, and the Origin of Igneous Rocks
- 4 Volcanism and Extrusive Rocks
- 5 Weathering and Soil
- 6 Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
- 7 Metamorphism, Metamorphic Rocks, and Hydrothermal Rocks
- 8 Time and Geology
- 9 Mass Wasting
- 10 Streams and Floods
- 11 Ground Water
- 12 Glaciers and Glaciation
- 13 Deserts and Wind Action
- 14 Waves, Beaches, and Coasts
- 15 Geologic Structures
- 16 Earthquakes
- 17 Earth's Interior and Geophysical Properties
- 18 The Sea Floor
- 19 Plate Tectonics
- 20 Mountain Belts and the Continental Crust
- 21 Geologic Resources
Contents
L'auteur - Charles C. Plummer
California State; University of Sacramento
L'auteur - Diane H. Carlson
California State; University of Sacramento
L'auteur - David McGeary
California State; University of Sacramento
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Mc Graw Hill |
| Auteur(s) | Charles C. Plummer, Diane H. Carlson, David McGeary |
| Parution | 15/03/2002 |
| Nb. de pages | 574 |
| Format | 22,6 x 27,4 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 1222g |
| Intérieur | Quadri |
| EAN13 | 9780071199513 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-07-119951-3 |
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