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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spellman, Frank R.
Otros Autores: Stoudt, Melissa L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.