Principles of Geology

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2021

ISBN13

9781642650433

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This title explores the science about the solid Earth, the rocks that comprise it, and the processes by which they change over time.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Publisher’s Note.
Introduction.
Contributors.
1: Andesitic Rocks.
2: Aquifers.
3: Asteroids.
4: Athabasca Oil Sands.
5: Basaltic Rocks.
6: Batholiths.
7: Beaches and Coastal Processes.
8: Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks.
9: Bolides.
10: Boltwood Uses Radioactivity to Determine Ages of Rocks.
11: Carbonate Compensation Depths.
12: Carbonate Minerals.
13: Carbonatites.
14: Clays.
15: Clays and Clay Minerals.
16: Contact Metamorphism.
17: Coriolis Effect.
18: Crystals.
19: The “Deep-Impact” Mission: Geology of a Comet.
20: Deep-Sea Sedimentation.
21: Deglaciation.
22: Deltas.
23: Desert Landforms.
24: Desert Pavement.
25: Desertification.
26: Deserts.
27: Diagenesis.
28: Diamond.
29: Diatomite.
30: Doell and Dalrymple Discover the Magnetic Reversals of Earth’s Poles.
31: Drainage Basins.
32: Earthquake Prediction.
33: Earthquakes.
34: Earth’s Crust.
35: Earth’s Internal Structure.
36: Earth’s Moon.
37: Economic Geology.
38: Engineering Seismology.
39: Evaporites.
40: External Processes.
41: Extraterrestrial Resources.
42: Floods.
43: Fluvial and Karst Processes.
44: The Gaia Hypothesis.
45: Gem Minerals.
46: Geochemical Cycles.
47: Geologic Timescale.
48: Geology.
49: German Meteor Expedition Discovers the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
50: Glaciations.
51: Glaciers.
52: Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
53: Granitic Rocks.
54: Gutenberg Discovers Earth’s Mantle-Outer Core Boundary.
55: Heezen and Ewing Discover the Midoceanic Ridge.
56: Hess, Harry Hammond.
57: Hess Identifies the Cause of Continental Drift.
58: Hutton Proposes the Geological Theory of Uniformitarianism.
59: Igneous Processes, Rocks, and Mineral Deposits.
60: Internal Geologic Processes.
61: International System of Units.
62: Kimberlites.
63: Lehmann Discovers Earth’s Inner Core.
64: Limestone.
65: Lithosphere.
66: Lomonoso
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