Earth / Susanna Van Rose.
Series: Eyewitness GuidesPublisher: London : Dorling Kindersley, c1994Description: 64 pages : color illustrationsContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0751361380[hardbound]
- Ref. 550 V35 1994
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reference | High School Library Reference | Ref. 550 V35 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 1598HS |
Includes index.
What makes up the earth? -- Early ideas about earth -- A cocoon of gas -- Climate the past -- Watery planet -- The properties of water -- Realms of rice -- The building blocks -- Investigating rocks -- Igneous rocks -- Sedimentary rocks -- Metamorphic rocks -- The challenge of the ocean -- Modern oceanography -- Continental drift -- Plate tectonics -- The formation of the ocean floor -- Exploring the interior -- Earthquakes and seismology -- Volcanology -- Mountain building -- Plateaux and rifts -- Weathering processes -- Life from rock -- Erosion -- Deposition -- Glaciation -- Dating the earth -- Naming the earth
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