A Practical Guide to Introductory Geology
About This Book
What is Geology? In its broadest sense, geology is the study of Earth—its interior and its exterior surface, the minerals, rocks and other materials that are around us, the processes that have resulted in the formation of those materials, the water that flows over the surface and through the ground, the changes that have taken place over the vastness of geological time, and the changes that we can anticipate will take place in the near future. Geology is a science, meaning that we use deductive
| Category | general |
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| Subject | Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 37 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- What is Geology?
- Why Study Earth?
- Minerals and Rocks
- Fundamentals of Plate Tectonics
- Geological Time
- Summary
- Grid Systems and Coordinates
- 1.1 Discovering Plate Tectonics
- 1.2 Plates, Plate Motions, and Plate Boundaries
- Lab 1 Exercises
- 2.1 Bonding and Lattices
- 2.2 Mineral Groups
- 2.3 Mineral Properties
- 2.4 Economic Minerals
- Lab 2 Exercises
- 3.1 Silicate Mineral Groups
- 4.2 Crystallization of Magma
- Summary
- 5.1 Weathering
- 5.2 The Products of Weathering and Erosion
- 5.3 Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
- 5.5 Depositional Environments and Sedimentary Basins
- Lab 5 Exercises
- Summary
- 6.1 Metamorphism and Plate Tectonics
- 6.3 The Rock Cycle
- Review of Minerals and Rocks
- 7.1 The Geological Time Scale
- Lab 7 Exercises
- Summary
- 8.2 Stream Types
- 8.3 What Makes a Map?
- Lab 8 Exercises
- Summary
- Lab 9 Exercises
- Summary
- Lab 10 Exercises