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Earth : portrait of a planet / Stephen Marshak.

By: Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: (various pagings) : col. ill. : 28 cmISBN:
  • 0393925021 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 550 22 MAR
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CONTENT

Part one I. Our island in space
Chapter 1. Cosmology and birth of earth
2. Journey to the canter of earth
3. Drifting contents and spread of seas
4. The way the earth works: plate tectonics

Part II. Earth materials
5. Patterns in nature: minerals
6. Up from the inferno: magma and igneous rocks
7. A surface veneer : sediments, soils and sedimentary rocks
8. Metamorphism: A process of change

Part III. Tectonic activity of dynamic planet
9. The wrath of Vulcan: volcanic eruption
10. Violent pulse: earthquakes
etc..

Part IV. History before history
Part V. Earth resources
Part VI. Process and problems at the earth's surface
Appendices

Includes index.

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