Essentials of Geology, 2e
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- The Earth in Context
- The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics
- (2.1) Basic Plate Boundaries
- (2.2) What a Geologist Sees: Plate Boundaries
- (2.3) Formation of Ocean Crust
- (2.4) Transform Faulting
- (2.5) The Process of Subduction
- (2.6) Hot Spot Volcanoes
- (2.7) The Process of Rifting
- Patterns in Nature: Minerals
- Up From the Inferno: Magma and Igneous Rocks
- (4.1) What a Geologist Sees: Antarctic Sill
- (4.2) What a Geologist Imagines: Volcanic Neck at Shiprock
- (4.3) What a Geologist Sees: Pluton at Torres del Paines
- A Surface Veneer: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
- (5.1) What a Geologist Sees: Contact between Basement and Cover
- (5.2) What a Geologist Sees: Formations in the Grand Canyon
- (5.3) Formation of Cross Beds
- (5.4) What a Geologist Sees: Crossbeds
- (5.5) Transgression and Regression
- (5.6) What a Geologist Sees: Channel Deposits
- Change in the Solid State: Metamorphic Rocks
- The Wrath of Vulcan: Volcanic Eruptions
- A Violent Pulse: Earthquakes
- (8.1) Types of Faults
- (8.2) What a Geologist Sees: Offset Fence along San Andreas Fault
- (8.3) Seismic Wave Motion
- (8.4) How a Seismograph Works
- Crags, Cracks, and Crumples: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building
- (9.1) Development of Strain (pure and simple shear)
- (9.2) What a Geologist Sees: Offset Stream Channel Along San Andreas Fault
- (9.3) What a Geologist Sees: Fault Offsetting
- (9.4) What a Geologist Sees: Thrust Fault
- (9.5) What a Geologist Sees: Horsts and Grabens
- (9.6) Process of Folding
- (9.7) What a Geologist Sees: Fold Trains in Ireland
- (9.8) What a Geologist Sees: Flexural Fold
- (9.9) What a Geologist Sees: Flow Fold
- (9.10) What a Geologist Sees: Cleavage in an Anticline
- (9.11) What a Geologist Sees: Shear Movement
- (9.12) Development of a Collisional Mountain Belt
- Deep Time: How Old is Old?
- (10.1) Geologic History
- (10.2) What a Geologist Sees: Stratigraphic Column
- (10.3) What a Geologist Sees: Unconformity
- (10.4) Types of Unconformity
- A Biography of Earth
- Riches in Rock: Energy and Mineral Resources
- Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements
- Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running Water
- Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts
- A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater
- Dry Regions: The Geology of Deserts
- Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages
- Global Change in the Earth System
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