Insights: A Laboratory Manual for Physical and Historical Geology

Clair Ossian (Autor)

Loseblattwerk

250 Seiten

2015
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4652-5916-5 (ISBN)

Infos

New Edition Now Available Insights: A Laboratory for Physical and Historical Geology is the only geology laboratory manual available combining physical and historical geology. This book is beneficial for geology majors and non-majors and fills the need for a broad, general approach to core curriculum geology topics in support of physical and historical geology. Students have two semesters worth of content in a single text. This general survey of the basics of geology is a powerful tool for students. Exercises, activities, full color photos, topographic maps and various other resources in this book will give students a good understanding of: * identifying rocks, minerals and fossils. * maps and mapping. * relative and absolute time. * the ordering of geologic events. * stratigraphy and correlation. * paleontology. * geological structures. NEW to the 5th edition: * Continental Drift * Discovery of Plate Tectonics * Mechanisms of Plate Tectonics Links to Separate Manuals: Insights: A Laboratory Manual for Historical Geology Insights: A Laboratory Manual for Physical Geology

Inhalt

CHAPTER 1 Minerals CHAPTER 2 Igneous Rocks CHAPTER 3 Sedimentary Rock Identification CHAPTER 4 Metamorphic Rock Identification CHAPTER 5 Introduction to Maps and Mapping CHAPTER 6 Topographic Maps CHAPTER 7 Pace and Compass Mapping: Finding Your Way with Map and Compass CHAPTER 8 Measuring Geological Time CHAPTER 9 Stratigraphy and the Ordering of Geological Events CHAPTER 10 Physical Stratigraphy CHAPTER 11 Introduction to Paleontology CHAPTER 12 Paleontology and Identification of the Major Phyla-Part One CHAPTER 13 Paleontology and Identification of the Major Phyla-Part Two CHAPTER 14 Applied Paleontology CHAPTER 15 Geological Structures CHAPTER 16 The Beginnings. Continental Drift and the Discovery of Plate Tectonics

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.12.2016
• Verlagsort: Iowa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4652-5916-3 / 1465259163
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4652-5916-5 / 9781465259165
• Zustand: Neuware