Designed to help students gain a conceptual understanding through hands-on experience, this text uses an informal tone to invoke student interest and curiosity. Features include: hands-on labs, requiring only common, inexpensive materials (such as string, glass jars and clay) and a summary exercise, "Putting it All Together", which challenges students to synthesize what they have learnt in previous chapters.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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colour photographs, colour illustrations, colour topographic maps
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978-0-697-14706-6 (9780697147066)
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Queen's College, City University of New York, USA
Part 1 Minerals and rocks: minerals; minerals in rocks; interpreting Earth history from igneous rocks; interpreting Earth history from sedimentary rocks; interpreting Earth history from metamorphic rocks. Part 2 Earth's history determined from its surface features: introduction to maps; streams and stream-carved landscapes; glaciers and glacially-formed landscapes; groundwater as a landscape-former and a resource; arid landscapes and the work of the wind; shorelines - coastal erosion and deposition. Part 3 Internal Earth processes revealed by surface features: interpreting geologic structures; interpreting geologic history; plate tectonics; putting it all together.
