The handbook of geoscience
This book incorporates the relevant math operations and conceptual terminology, the volume surveys the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, pedosphere, and related areas. Force and motion; work, energy, and momentum; and circular motion and gravity receive their due. Sample entries inclu...
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Lanham, MD
Scarecrow Press
©2013
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Table of Contents:
- 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