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