Laboratory Exercises in Physical Geology
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Spiral bound
240 pages
978-0-697-14706-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Dubuque, IA
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
colour photographs, colour illustrations, colour topographic maps
Weight
545 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-697-14706-6 (9780697147066)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
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.