The changing earth : exploring geology and evolution
/ James S. Monroe
- 3rd ed.
- Australia : Brooks/Cole, 2002
- xxiii, 733 p.
includes
1. Understanding earth: an introduction 2. Minerals—the building blocks of rocks 3. Igneous rocks and intrusive igneous activity 4. Volcanism and volcanoes 5. Weathering, soil and sedimentary rocks 6. Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks 7. Earth quakes and earth’s interiors 8. The seafloor 9. Plate tectonics: a unifying theory 10. Deformation, mountain building, and the continents 11. Mass wasting 12. Running water 13. Groundwater 14. Glaciers and glaciation 15. The work of wind and deserts 16. Shorelines and shoreline processes 17. Geologic time: concepts and principles 18. Evolution –the theory and its supporting evidence 19. A history of the universe, solar system and planets 20. Precambrian earth and life history 21. Paleozoic earth history 22. Paleozoic life history 23. Mesozoic earth and life history 24. Cenozoic earth and life history