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- catalog contributor b12344108.
- catalog contributor b12344109.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "1. An introduction to geology -- The science of geology -- Geologic time -- The nature of scientific inquiry -- A view of Earth -- Earth as a system -- The rock cycle -- The face of Earth -- Early evolution of Earth -- Earth's internal structure -- Dynamic Earth.".
- catalog description "10. Running water -- The hydrologic cycle -- Running water -- Streamflow -- Changes from upstream to downstream -- Base level and graded streams -- Stream erosion -- Transport of sediment by streams -- Deposition of sediment by streams -- Stream valleys -- Incised meanders and stream terraces -- Drainage networks -- Floods and flood control.".
- catalog description "11. Groundwater -- Importance of underground water -- Distribution of underground water -- The water table -- Factors influencing the storage and movement of groundwater -- Movement of groundwater -- Springs -- Hot springs and geysers -- Wells -- Artesian wells -- Problems associated with groundwater withdrawal -- Groundwater contamination -- The geologic work of groundwater.".
- catalog description "12. Glaciers and glaciation -- Types of glaciers -- Formation of glacial ice -- Movement of a glacier -- Glacial erosion -- Landforms created by glacial erosion -- Glacial deposits -- Landforms made of till -- Landforms made of stratified drift -- The glacial theory and the ice age -- Some indirect effects of ice-age glaciers -- Causes of glaciation.".
- catalog description "13. Deserts and winds -- Distribution and causes of dry lands -- Geologic processes in arid climates -- Basin and range: the evolution of a desert landscape -- Transportation of sediment by wind -- Wind erosion -- Wind deposits.".
- catalog description "14. Shorelines -- Waves -- Wave erosion -- Longshore transport -- Shoreline features -- Shoreline erosion problems -- Emergent and subemergent coasts -- Tides -- 15. Crustal deformation -- Deformation -- Mapping geologic structures -- Folds -- Faults -- Joints -- 16. Earthquakes -- San Andreas Fault -- Seismology -- Locating the source of an earthquake -- Measuring the size of earthquakes -- Earthquake destruction -- Can earthquakes be predicted? -- 17. Earth's interior -- Probing Earth's interior -- Seismic waves and Earth's structure -- Discovering Earth's major boundaries -- The crust -- The mantle -- The core -- Earth's internal heat engine -- 18. The ocean floor -- Mapping the ocean floor -- Continental margins -- Submarine canyons and turbidity currents -- Features of the deep-ocean basin -- Coral reefs and atolls -- Seafloor sediments -- Mid-ocean ridges.".
- catalog description "19. Plate tectonics -- Continental drift -- The great debate -- Paleomagnetism -- The scientific revolution begins -- Plate tectonics: the new paradigm -- Divergent plate boundaries -- Convergent plate boundaries -- Transform fault boundaries -- Testing the plate tectonics model -- Measuring plate motion -- The driving mechanism -- 20. Mountain building and the evolution of continents -- Mountain belts -- Mountain building at convergent boundaries -- Vertical movements of the crust -- Mountain building away from plate margins -- The origin and evolution of continental crust -- 21. Energy and mineral resources -- Renewable and nonrenewable resources -- Energy resources -- Coal -- Oil and natural gas -- Some environmental effects of burning fossil fuels -- Tar sands and oil shale: petroleum for the future? -- Alternate energy sources -- Mineral resources -- Mineral resources and igneous processes -- Mineral resources and metamorphic processes -- Weathering and ore deposits -- Placer deposits -- Nonmetallic mineral resources -- 22. Planetary geology -- Origin and evolution of the planets -- Earth's moon -- The planets: a brief tour -- Minor members of the solar system.".
- catalog description "2. Matter and minerals -- The composition of minerals -- The structure of minerals -- Physical properties of minerals -- Mineral groups.".
- catalog description "3. Igneous rocks -- Magma -- Igneous textures -- Igneous compositions -- Naming igneous rocks -- Origin of magma -- How magmas evolve.".
- catalog description "4. Volcanoes and other igneous activity -- The nature of volcanic eruptions -- Materials extruded during an eruption -- Volcanic structures and eruptive styles -- Living in the shadow of a composite clone -- Other volcanic landforms -- Intrusive igneous activity -- Plate tectonics and igneous activity -- Can volcanoes change Earth's climate?".
- catalog description "5. Weathering and soil -- Mechanical weathering -- Chemical weathering -- Rates of weathering -- Soil -- Controls of soil formation -- The soil profile -- Soil types -- Soil erosion.".
- catalog description "6. Sedimentary rocks -- Diagenesis and lithification -- Types of sedimentary rocks -- Detrital sedimentary rocks -- Chemical sedimentary rocks -- Classification of sedimentary rocks -- Sedimentary environments -- Fossils: evidence of past life.".
- catalog description "7. Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks -- Agents of metamorphism -- Metamorphic textures -- Common metamorphic rocks -- Metamorphic environments -- Metamorphic zones -- Metamorphism and plate tectonics.".
- catalog description "8. Geologic time -- Geology needs a time scale -- Relative dating -- Correlation of rock layers -- Dating with radioactivity -- The geologic time scale.".
- catalog description "9. Mass wasting: the work of gravity -- A landslide disaster in Peru -- Mass wasting and landform development -- Controls and triggers of mass wasting -- Classification of mass wasting processes -- Slump -- Rockslide -- Debris flow -- Earthflow -- Slow movements -- Submarine landslides.".
- catalog description "System requirements: Macintosh with 256 color graphics; 13" or larger display (640x480 or higher); 6 MB of free RAM; System 7.0 or newer, or, IBM compatible 486 or better; SVGA (256 colors in 640x480); 16 MB RAM suggested; Windows 3.1 (enhanced mode) or Windows 95/98/NT; double-speed CD-ROM drive. ⁺".
- catalog extent "xvii, 670 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Earth.".
- catalog identifier "013061856X (CD-ROM)".
- catalog identifier "0130920258".
- catalog isFormatOf "Earth.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall,".
- catalog relation "Earth.".
- catalog requires "System requirements: Macintosh with 256 color graphics; 13" or larger display (640x480 or higher); 6 MB of free RAM; System 7.0 or newer, or, IBM compatible 486 or better; SVGA (256 colors in 640x480); 16 MB RAM suggested; Windows 3.1 (enhanced mode) or Windows 95/98/NT; double-speed CD-ROM drive. ⁺".
- catalog subject "550 21".
- catalog subject "Physical geology Textbooks.".
- catalog subject "Physical geology.".
- catalog subject "QE28.2 .T37 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. An introduction to geology -- The science of geology -- Geologic time -- The nature of scientific inquiry -- A view of Earth -- Earth as a system -- The rock cycle -- The face of Earth -- Early evolution of Earth -- Earth's internal structure -- Dynamic Earth.".
- catalog tableOfContents "10. Running water -- The hydrologic cycle -- Running water -- Streamflow -- Changes from upstream to downstream -- Base level and graded streams -- Stream erosion -- Transport of sediment by streams -- Deposition of sediment by streams -- Stream valleys -- Incised meanders and stream terraces -- Drainage networks -- Floods and flood control.".
- catalog tableOfContents "11. Groundwater -- Importance of underground water -- Distribution of underground water -- The water table -- Factors influencing the storage and movement of groundwater -- Movement of groundwater -- Springs -- Hot springs and geysers -- Wells -- Artesian wells -- Problems associated with groundwater withdrawal -- Groundwater contamination -- The geologic work of groundwater.".
- catalog tableOfContents "12. Glaciers and glaciation -- Types of glaciers -- Formation of glacial ice -- Movement of a glacier -- Glacial erosion -- Landforms created by glacial erosion -- Glacial deposits -- Landforms made of till -- Landforms made of stratified drift -- The glacial theory and the ice age -- Some indirect effects of ice-age glaciers -- Causes of glaciation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "13. Deserts and winds -- Distribution and causes of dry lands -- Geologic processes in arid climates -- Basin and range: the evolution of a desert landscape -- Transportation of sediment by wind -- Wind erosion -- Wind deposits.".
- catalog tableOfContents "14. Shorelines -- Waves -- Wave erosion -- Longshore transport -- Shoreline features -- Shoreline erosion problems -- Emergent and subemergent coasts -- Tides -- 15. Crustal deformation -- Deformation -- Mapping geologic structures -- Folds -- Faults -- Joints -- 16. Earthquakes -- San Andreas Fault -- Seismology -- Locating the source of an earthquake -- Measuring the size of earthquakes -- Earthquake destruction -- Can earthquakes be predicted? -- 17. Earth's interior -- Probing Earth's interior -- Seismic waves and Earth's structure -- Discovering Earth's major boundaries -- The crust -- The mantle -- The core -- Earth's internal heat engine -- 18. The ocean floor -- Mapping the ocean floor -- Continental margins -- Submarine canyons and turbidity currents -- Features of the deep-ocean basin -- Coral reefs and atolls -- Seafloor sediments -- Mid-ocean ridges.".
- catalog tableOfContents "19. Plate tectonics -- Continental drift -- The great debate -- Paleomagnetism -- The scientific revolution begins -- Plate tectonics: the new paradigm -- Divergent plate boundaries -- Convergent plate boundaries -- Transform fault boundaries -- Testing the plate tectonics model -- Measuring plate motion -- The driving mechanism -- 20. Mountain building and the evolution of continents -- Mountain belts -- Mountain building at convergent boundaries -- Vertical movements of the crust -- Mountain building away from plate margins -- The origin and evolution of continental crust -- 21. Energy and mineral resources -- Renewable and nonrenewable resources -- Energy resources -- Coal -- Oil and natural gas -- Some environmental effects of burning fossil fuels -- Tar sands and oil shale: petroleum for the future? -- Alternate energy sources -- Mineral resources -- Mineral resources and igneous processes -- Mineral resources and metamorphic processes -- Weathering and ore deposits -- Placer deposits -- Nonmetallic mineral resources -- 22. Planetary geology -- Origin and evolution of the planets -- Earth's moon -- The planets: a brief tour -- Minor members of the solar system.".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. Matter and minerals -- The composition of minerals -- The structure of minerals -- Physical properties of minerals -- Mineral groups.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. Igneous rocks -- Magma -- Igneous textures -- Igneous compositions -- Naming igneous rocks -- Origin of magma -- How magmas evolve.".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. Volcanoes and other igneous activity -- The nature of volcanic eruptions -- Materials extruded during an eruption -- Volcanic structures and eruptive styles -- Living in the shadow of a composite clone -- Other volcanic landforms -- Intrusive igneous activity -- Plate tectonics and igneous activity -- Can volcanoes change Earth's climate?".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Weathering and soil -- Mechanical weathering -- Chemical weathering -- Rates of weathering -- Soil -- Controls of soil formation -- The soil profile -- Soil types -- Soil erosion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. Sedimentary rocks -- Diagenesis and lithification -- Types of sedimentary rocks -- Detrital sedimentary rocks -- Chemical sedimentary rocks -- Classification of sedimentary rocks -- Sedimentary environments -- Fossils: evidence of past life.".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks -- Agents of metamorphism -- Metamorphic textures -- Common metamorphic rocks -- Metamorphic environments -- Metamorphic zones -- Metamorphism and plate tectonics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "8. Geologic time -- Geology needs a time scale -- Relative dating -- Correlation of rock layers -- Dating with radioactivity -- The geologic time scale.".
- catalog tableOfContents "9. Mass wasting: the work of gravity -- A landslide disaster in Peru -- Mass wasting and landform development -- Controls and triggers of mass wasting -- Classification of mass wasting processes -- Slump -- Rockslide -- Debris flow -- Earthflow -- Slow movements -- Submarine landslides.".
- catalog title "Earth : an introduction to physical geology / Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens ; illustrated by Dennis Tasa.".
- catalog type "CD-ROMs. local".
- catalog type "Textbooks. fast".
- catalog type "text".