Designed to motivate students, this text details practical, hands-on experiments teach the standard topics of physical and historical geology. Features include: enhanced text narratives before each lab, explaining concepts and background information; pre-lab question sets consisting of both short-answer and more in-depth questions to be completed as homework before conducting the lab; lab activities, involving both experiments and map and photograph exercises; and post-lab problems designed as take-home exercises which challenge students to investigate classical exercises and geologic scenarios. A special section on historical geology is also included.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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978-0-697-12807-2 (9780697128072)
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University of Hawaii, USA
Part 1 The Earth and its materials: representation of the Earth's surface; mineral identification of igneous rocks; origin and identification of sedimenary rocks; metamorphic rocks. Part 2 Surface processes: fluvial systems; ground water systems; coastal systems; Alpine and continental glaciation; arid landforms and Elian processes; volcanism and volcanic landforms. Part 3 Internal processes: geologic structures; earthquakes and society; plate tectonics. Part 4 Earth history: geologic time; stratigraphy.
