Earth Science

E-Book Overview

For Introductory Earth Science Courses Ideal for undergraduates with little or no science background, Earth Science provides a student-friendly overview of our physical environment that offers balanced, up-to-date coverage of geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology. The authors’ texts have always been recognized for their readability, currency, dynamic art program, delivery of basic principles and instructor flexibility. The Fourteenth Edition incorporates a new active learning approach, a fully updated and mobile visual program, and MasteringGeology™—the most complete, easy-to-use, engaging tutorial and assessment tool available. This program will provide an interactive and engaging learning experience for your students. Here’s how: Personalize learning with MasteringGeology™: MasteringGeology provides students with engaging and interactive experiences that coach them through introductory physical geography with specific wrong-answer feedback, hints, and a wide variety of educationally effective content. Teach with an active learning path: Chapters have been broken up into small manageable sections that help students actively analyze information, assess their progress and think about Earth science. Use art that teaches. Each chapter contains 5-7 SmartFigures. SmartFigures are illustrations that use Quick Response (QR) codes to link students to lecture-style videos. Also found in each chapter and accessed by QR codes are Mobile Field Trips, where students virtually accompany Michael Collier on adventures to explore different landscapes. Cultivate an active learning environment that helps students achieve a deeper understanding of the text.

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E-Book Information

• Edition: 14th

• Pages: 792

• Pages In File: 792

• Language: English

• Topic: 178

• Identifier: 9,780,321,928,092

• Org File Size: 88,608,484

• Extension: pdf

• Tags: earth science geology geophysics tectonics oceanography astronomy meteorology

• Toc: Frontmatter......Page 1 New learning path helps students master the concepts......Page 18 1. Introduction to Earth Science......Page 26 Unit One: Earth Materials......Page 56 2. Matter and Minerals......Page 57 3. Rocks: Materials of the Solid Earth......Page 82 Unit Two: Sculpting Earth’s Surface......Page 118 4. Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting......Page 119 5. Running Water and Groundwater......Page 154 6. Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind......Page 194 Unit Three: Forces Within......Page 232 7. Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds......Page 233 8. Earthquakes and Earth’s Interior......Page 268 9. Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity......Page 300 10. Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building......Page 340 Unit Four: Deciphering Earth’s History......Page 370 11. Geologic Time......Page 371 12. Earth’s Evolution Through Geologic Time......Page 396 Unit Five: The Global Ocean......Page 432 13. The Ocean Floor......Page 433 14. Oc