Earth
The Science of Our Planet - A Wm.C.Brown Publishers' Earth Science Reader
David Dathe(Editor)
Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-697-23408-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collectoin of 16 articles is drawn from the magazine, "Earth: The Science of Our Planet". The articles and accompanying photographs correlate with an Instructor's Manual which is loaded with innovative suggestions and tips for incorporating the reader into your classroom. The reader covers a variety of topics, such as the hole in the ozone layer, current research on dinosaurs and the lessons learned from the Landers earthquake. The reader can be packaged with any WCB earth science title or purchased separately at a book shop. It should be a useful supplement to any introductory course, including physical environmental geology, oceanography, earth science and physical geography.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dubuque, IA
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
301 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-697-23408-7 (9780697234087)
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Content
Part 1 Environmental geology: monitoring the global environment; history lessons; under the ozone hole; oil - when will it run out?; powder river coal. Patr 2 Meteorology: live from space - clouds in the news; receive satellite images on your computer. Part 3 Oceanography: swept away; charting Earth's final frontier. Part 4 Plate tectonics: anatomy of a mountain range; lessons from Landers; CAT scanning the Earth; Hawaii's volcanoes - windows in the Earth. Part 5 Paleontology: Bakker's field guide to Jurassic Park dinosaurs/extinctions - or which way did they go? Part 6 Cartography: building a better map.