Synopses & Reviews
This leading dictionary--now in its third edition--offers wide-ranging and authoritative coverage of the earth sciences and related topics. In more than 6,250 clear and accessible entries, it covers geology, oceanography, paleontology, mineralogy, volcanology, and planetary science as well as climatology, geochemistry, and petrology. The third edition is fully updated and includes additional coverage of process geomorphology and physical geography, plus more than 50 new line drawings to accompany descriptions of forms and processes. The new edition also features web links accessed via a companion website, featuring additional information that is regularly updated to ensure that it stays fresh. Finally, the book has a revised bibliography and a number of appendices that include a revised geological time scale, stratigraphic units, lunar and Martian time scales, wind-strength scales, and SI units. It is an essential reference for students of geography, geology, and earth sciences and in related disciplines.
Review
"I marvel at how the editors have compressed so much so clearly"--Nature (review for previous edition)
"Can really claim to offer comprehensive coverage of the earth sciences"--Times Educational Supplement (review for previous edition)
Review
"If there is one thing that Oxford University Press can produce better than any other publisher, it's a dictionary. This dictionary would be an important supplement to any Earth Science course or related discipline, but is also written so that someone without prior knowledge can be easily introduced to the field. A concise, informative and attractive book that attempts to cover every aspect of Earth Science for the modern world."--The Astrobiology Society of Britain
"I marvel at how the editors have compressed so much so clearly"--Nature (review for previous edition)
"Can really claim to offer comprehensive coverage of the earth sciences"--Times Educational Supplement (review for previous edition)
Synopsis
Compiled with the help of a team of specialist contributors, Dictionary of Earth Sciences is the most authoritative and wide-ranging dictionary of earth sciences available in a single volume. The 6,000 entries provide broad coverage of climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, petrology, and volcanology. There are entries on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, and substantial updating in palaeontology, mineralogy, and geophysics. A useful section of appendices includes wind strengths and time scales. Substantially revised and updated for this new edition, Dictionary of Earth Sciences is an essential reference for all students of earth science and anyone else with an interest in the earth.
About the Author
Michael Allaby has written over 80 books on the environment, climatology, meteorology, and geography. He is also the editor of the
Oxford Dictionaries of Ecology, Zoology, and
Plant Sciences.
Table of Contents
Contributors and Advisors
Dictionary
Appendices Stratigraphic Units as Defined in the North American Stratigraphic Code, 1983
Time-Scales
Wind Strength
SI Units, Conversions, and Multiples
Bibliography