Essentials of Earth Science: Theory & Practice

Preface  
Author 
Chapter 1 Prolegomena: The Earth System, the Scientific Method, and Measurement  
Chapter 2 The Earth’s Building Blocks: Minerals  
Chapter 3 Fire from Below: Igneous Rocks and Volcanism  
Chapter 4 Now I Lay Me Down: Sedimentary Rocks  
Chapter 5  The Changing Earth: Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks  
Chapter 6  The Eternal Earth: Geologic Time  
Chapter 7 On the Move: Plate Tectonics 
Chapter 8 Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Earthquakes and Seismology  
Chapter 9 Peaks and Valleys: Topographic Maps 
Chapter 10 In the Flow: Streams and Groundwater 
Chapter 11 Going Downhill: Mass Wasting
Chapter 12 Overburdened: Soils and Land Use  
Chapter 13 The Earth’s Money: Economic Geology and Resources 
Chapter 14 On the Margins: Oceans and Coastlines   
Chapter 15 The Roiling Ocean: Surface-Ocean and Thermohaline Circulation 
Chapter 16 Raining Down: Introduction to Meteorology 
Chapter 17 The Astro-Trinity: Earth-Moon-Sun Relations  
Appendix I  
Appendix II 
Glossary 
Index