Synopses & Reviews
A new way of reading physical geology, Lutgens/Tarbuck’s “Essentials of Geology, 10e” employs a superior new graphic design to make a trusted text that’s already number one with professors become number one with students. This edition offers completely updated material and an extensively revised design, yet retains the hallmarks instructors have come to expect from Lutgens and Tarbuck – a student-friendly writing style, outstanding illustrations by Dennis Tasa that are both geologically accurate and visually appealing, and updated coverage of the most recent geologic events.
Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to Geology
2 . Minerals: Building Blocks of Rocks
3. Igneous Rocks
4. Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity
5. Weathering and Soils
6. Sedimentary Rocks
7. Metamorphic Rocks
8. Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity
9. Running Water
10. Groundwater
11. Glaciers and Glaciation
12. Deserts and Wind
13. Shorelines
14. Earthquakes and Earth’s Interior
15. Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Theory Unfolds
16. Origin and Evolution of the Ocean Floor
17. Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building
18. Geologic Time
19. Earth’s Evolution through Geologic Time
Appendix A Metric and English Units Compared
Appendix B Topographic Maps
Appendix C Landforms of the Conterminous United States
Glossary
Index