Salem Press.

Print ISBN: 9781642650426.

Title from Web page (viewed on September 2, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Andesitic Rocks -- Aquifers -- Asteroids -- Athabasca Oil Sands -- Basaltic Rocks -- Batholiths -- Beaches and Coastal Processes -- Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks -- Bolides -- Boltwood Uses Radioactivity to Determine Ages of Rocks -- Carbonate Compensation Depths -- Carbonate Minerals -- Carbonatites -- Clays -- Clays and Clay Minerals -- Contact Metamorphism -- Coriolis Effect -- Crystals -- The "Deep-Impact" Mission: Geology of a Comet -- Deep-Sea Sedimentation -- Deglaciation -- Deltas -- Desert Landforms -- Desert Pavement -- Desertification -- Deserts -- Diagenesis -- Diamond -- Diatomite -- Doell and Dalrymple Discover the Magnetic Reversals of Earth's Poles -- Drainage Basins -- Earthquake Prediction -- Earthquakes -- Earth's Crust -- Earth's Internal Structure -- Earth's Moon -- Economic Geology -- Engineering Seismology -- Evaporites -- External Processes -- Extraterrestrial Resources -- Floods -- Fluvial and Karst Processes -- The Gaia Hypothesis -- Gem Minerals -- Geochemical Cycles -- Geologic Timescale -- Geology -- German Meteor Expedition Discovers the Mid-Atlantic Ridge -- Glaciations -- Glaciers -- Gondwanaland and Laurasia -- Granitic Rocks -- Gutenberg Discovers Earth's Mantle-Outer Core Boundary -- Heezen and Ewing Discover the Midoceanic Ridge -- Hess, Harry Hammond -- Hess Identifies the Cause of Continental Drift -- Hutton Proposes the Geological Theory of Uniformitarianism -- Igneous Processes, Rocks, and Mineral Deposits -- Internal Geologic Processes -- International System of Units -- Kimberlites -- Lehmann Discovers Earth's Inner Core -- Limestone -- Lithosphere -- Lomonosov Issues the First Catalog of Minerals.

Lunar Exploration -- Magma Crystallization -- Marble -- Mars Exploration Rovers -- Mean Sea Level -- Metamictization -- Metamorphic Processes, Rocks, and Mineral Deposits -- Mineralization and Hydrothermal Solutions -- Mineralogy -- Mohs Hardness Scale -- Mountain Building -- Nesosilicates and Sorosilicates -- New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission -- Nonsilicates -- Nucleosynthesis -- Ocean Acidification -- Ocean Margins -- Oceans' Origin -- Oil Shale and Tar Sands -- Oldham and MohoroviCi@ Discover Earth's Interior Structure -- Ophiolites -- Orbicular Rocks -- Paleontology -- Physical Properties of Rocks -- Placer Deposits -- Planet Formation -- Planetary Exploration -- Planetary Interiors -- Plate Tectonics -- Plutonic Rocks and Mineral Deposits -- Pumice -- Pyroclastic Flows -- Quartz and Silica -- Reefs -- Regional Metamorphism -- Richter, Charles Francis -- Richter Develops a Scale for Measuring Earthquake Strength -- Riverbed Forms -- Salt Domes -- Sand and Gravel -- Sandstone -- Seafloor Spreading -- Secondary Enrichment of Mineral Deposits -- Sedimentary Processes, Rocks, and Mineral Deposits -- Shale -- Silicates -- Siliciclastic Rocks -- Slate -- Soils -- Steno Presents His Theories of Fossils and Dynamic Geology -- Streams and Rivers -- Structure and Physical Properties of Minerals -- Subduction and Orogeny -- Sub-Seafloor Metamorphism -- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre -- Turbidity Currents and Submarine Fans -- Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism -- Ultrapotassic Rocks -- Volcanoes -- Weathering -- Wegener, Alfred -- Wegener Proposes the Theory of Continental Drift -- Xenoliths -- Zeolites -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Organizations -- Subject Index.

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