The handbook of geoscience /
Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-science professionals and general readers with little or no science background, the handbook is a user-friendly overview of our physical, biological and ecological environment that offer...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
©2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Basic math operations
- Force and motion
- Work, energy, and momentum
- Circular motion and gravity
- Thermal properties and states of matter
- The atmosphere
- Moisture in the atmosphere
- Atmosphere in motion
- Meteorology: the science of weather
- Climate change
- Earth's structure
- Minerals
- Igneous rocks & magna eruption
- Sedimentary rocks
- Metamorphism and deformation
- Weathering
- Wind erosion, mass wasting, and desertification
- Glaciation
- Earthquakes
- Plate tectonics
- Historical geology
- Earth's blood
- All about water
- Stream systems
- Lakes
- Oceans and their margins
- Soil: earth's skin and tissue
- Earth's life-forms and interrelationships
- Measuring Earth.