Earth science
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Earth science
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New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada, c1991.
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xii, 659 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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9780675213462
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目录
| Introduction |
| A view of earth |
| The earth sciences |
| Earth science and the environment |
| The nature of scientific inquiry |
| Studying earth science |
| Box 1.1 Earth as a System |
| Box 1.2 Earth's place in the cosmos |
| 1 Minerals: Building Blocks of Rocks |
| Box 1.1 Carrot, karat, carat |
| Box 1.2 Gemstones |
| 2 Rocks: Materials of the Lithosphere |
| Box 2.1 Asbestos: What are the risks? |
| 3 Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting |
| Box 3.1 Acid precipitation: A human impact on the earth system |
| Box 3.2 Laterites and the clearing of the rainforest |
| Box 3.3 The Gros Ventre slide: A classic case study |
| 4 Running Water and Groundwater |
| Box 4.1 The effects of urbanization on discharge |
| Box 4.2 The midwest floods of 1993 |
| Box 4.3 Dowsing for water |
| Box 4.4 Geothermal energy: An alternative |
| 5 Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind |
| Box 5.1 Do glaciers move? An application of the scientific method |
| Box 5.2 What if the ice melted? |
| Box 5.3 Common misconceptions about deserts |
| Box 5.4 Dust bowl: Soil erosion in the great plains |
| 6 Earthquakes and Earth's Interior |
| 6.1 Damaging earthquakes east of the Rockies |
| Box 6.2 Tsunami warning system |
| 7 Plate Tectonics |
| Box 7.1 A new test for plate tectonics |
| Box 7.2 Plate tectonics into the future |
| Box 7.3 The earth system: Plate tectonics and the rock cycle |
| 8 Igneous Activity |
| Box 8.1 The year without a summer |
| Box 8.2 Volcano sizes |
| Box 8.3 Volcanic activity and climate |
| 9 Mountain Building |
| Box 9.1 The San Andreas fault system |
| Box 9.2 Oil traps |
| Box 9.3 The Rocky Mountains |
| 10 Geologic Time |
| Box 10.1 Radon |
| 11 Earth History: A Brief Summary |
| Box 11.1 The great paleozoic extinction |
| Box 11.2 Farewell to the dinosaurs |
| 12 Ocean Waters and the Ocean Floor |
| Box 12.1 Evidence for the existence of turbidity currents |
| Box 12.2 Seafloor sediments and climatic change |
| 13 The Restless Ocean |
| Box 13.1 Tidal power |
| Box 13.2 Is global warming causing sea levels to rise? |
| 14 Composition, Structure, and Temperature |
| Box 14.1 Altering the atmosphere's composition: Sources and types of air pollution |
| Box 14.2 The ozone problem |
| Box 14.3 Solar energy |
| 15 Moisture |
| Box 15.1 Dry air at 100 percent relative humidity? |
| Box 15.2 Atmospheric stability influences air pollution |
| Box 15.3 Precipitation probability forecasts |
| 16 Air Pressure and Wind |
| Box 16.1 Scales of atmospheric motion |
| Box 16.2 Wind energy: An alternative with potential |
| 17 Weather Patterns and Severe Storms |
| Box 17.1 Lake-effect snow |
| Box 17.2 The deadliest weather |
| Box 17.3 Hurricane Andrew |
| 18 Climate |
| Box 18.1 The world's hottest and coldest places |
| Box 18.2 Precipitation records and mountainous terrain |
| Box 18.3 Climate change in cities |
| Box 18.4 Earth as a system: Climate feedback mechanisms |
| 19 Earth's Place in the Universe |
| Box 19.1 Proof for Earth's rotation |
| Box 19.2 Astrology |
| Box 19.3 Calendars |
| 20 Touring Our Solar System |
| Box 20.1 Venus and the runaway greenhouse effect: A lesson for planet Earth? |
| Box 20.2 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence |
| Box 20.3 Discovery of planet X |
| Box 20.4 Is Earth on a collision course? |
| Box 20.5 Comet Shoemaker Levy impacts Jupiter |
| 21 Light, Astronomical Observations, and the Sun |
| Box 21.1 The largest telescopes |
| Box 21.2 Variable sun and climate change |
| 22 Beyond Our Solar System |
| Box 22.1 Determining distance from magnitude |
| Box 22.2 Supernova 1987 A |
| Box 22.3 From stardust to you |
| Appendix A Metric and English Units Compared |
| Appendix B Mineral Identification Key |
| Appendix C Earth's Grid System |
| Appendix D Topographic Maps |
| Appendix E Star Charts |
| Appendix F World Soils |
| Appendix G Landforms of the Conterminous United States |
| Appendix H Periodic Table of the Elements |
Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Collier Macmillan Canada,
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Tarbuck, Edward J.
Tarbuck, Edward J.
Lutgens, Frederick K.
1991
9780675213462
New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada, c1991.
6th ed.
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QE 26.2 T38 1991
Earth science
Earth science
Earth science
Earth science
Tarbuck, Edward J.
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