How the Earth Works

Professor Michael E. Wysession, an established leader in seismology and geophysical education, is Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.--Back of box. CONTENTS Geology's Impact on History Geologic History—Dating the Earth Earth's Structure—Journey to Earth's Center Earth's Heat—Conduction and Convection The Basics of Plate Tectonics Making Matter—The Big Bang and Big Bangs Creating Earth—Recipe for a Planet The Rock Cycle—Matter in Motion Minerals—The Building Blocks of Rocks Magma—The Building Mush of Rocks Crystallization—The Rock Cycle Starts Volcanoes—Lava and Ash Folding—Bending Blocks, Flowing Rocks Earthquakes—Examining Earth's Faults Plate Tectonics—Why Continents Move The Ocean Seafloor—Unseen Lands Rifts and Ridges—The Creation of Plates Transform Faults—Tears of a Crust Subduction Zones—Recycling Oceans Continents Collide and Mountains Are Made Intraplate Volcanoes—Finding the Hot Spots Destruction from Volcanoes and Earthquakes Predicting Natural Disasters Anatomy of a Volcano—Mount St. Helens Anatomy of an Earthquake—Sumatra History of Plate Motions—Where and Why Assembling North America The Sun-Driven Hydrologic Cycle Water on Earth—The Blue Planet Earth's Atmosphere—Air and Weather Erosion—Weathering and Land Removal Jungles and Deserts—Feast or Famine Mass Wasting—Rocks Fall Downhill Streams—Shaping the Land Groundwater—The Invisible Reservoir Shorelines—Factories of Sedimentary Rocks Glaciers—The Power of Ice Planetary Wobbles and the Last Ice Age Long-Term Climate Change Short-Term Climate Change Climate Change and Human History Plate Tectonics and Natural Resources Nonrenewable Energy Sources Renewable Energy Sources Humans—Dominating Geologic Change History of Life—Complexity and Diversity The Solar System—Earth's Neighborhood The Lonely Planet—Fermi's Paradox.
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Author/Artist:Michael E. Wysession
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