Series name from publisher's note.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Mohorovičić 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.

High school and undergraduate level students.