Physical Geology (Sierra College Edition)
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This text addresses the dynamic nature of earth's geologic processes. Earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, landslides, rocks, minerals, fossils, erosion, glaciation, deserts, shorelines, groundwater, and plate tectonics.
Front Matter
1: Introduction to Geology
2: The Origin of Earth and the Solar System
3: Earth’s Interior
4: Minerals
5: The Rock Cycle
6: Igneous Rocks
7: Weathering, Sediment, and Soil
8: Sedimentary Rocks
9: Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
10: Plate Tectonics
11: Measuring Geological Time
12: Volcanism
13: Earthquakes
14: Geological Structures and Mountain Building
15: Streams and Floods
16: Groundwater
18: Shorelines
19: Geology of the Oceans
17: Mass Wasting
21: Earth-System Change
20: Glaciation
22: Geological Resources
Back Matter
Thumbnail: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park. (Public Domain; Jon Sullivan via Wikipedia)