Earth Materials (eBook)

Kevin Hefferan, John O'Brien (Autoren)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
808 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-1964-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Minerals and rocks form the foundation of geologic studies. This
new textbook has been written to address the needs of students at
the increasing number of universities that have compressed separate
mineralogy and petrology courses into a one- or two-semester Earth
materials course.

Key features of this book include:

* equal coverage of mineralogy, sedimentary petrology, igneous
petrology and metamorphic petrology;

* copious field examples and regional relationships with graphics
that illustrate the concepts discussed;

* numerous case studies to show the uses of earth materials as
resources and their fundamental role in our lives and the global
economy, and their relation to natural and human-induced
hazards;

* the integration of earth materials into a cohesive
process-based earth systems framework;

* two color thoughout with 48 pages of four color.

Readership: students taking an earth materials, or
combined mineralogy and petrology course in an earth science degree
program. It will also be useful for environmental scientists,
engineering geologists, and physical geographers who need to learn
about minerals, rocks, soil and water in a comprehensive
framework.

A companion website for this book is available at: href="http://www.wiley.com/go/hefferan/earthmaterials">www.wiley.com/go/hefferan/earthmaterials.

Autor

Kevin Hefferan is the author of Earth Materials, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Earth materials and the geosphere.

2. Atoms, elements, bonds and coordination polyhedra.

3 Atomic substitution, phase diagrams and isotopes.

4. Crystallography.

5. Mineral properties and rock-forming minerals.

6. Optical identification of minerals.

7. Classification of igneous rocks.

8. Magma and intrusive structures.

9. Volcanic features and landforms.

10. Igneous rock associations.

11. The sedimentary cycle: erosion, transportation, deposition
and sedimentary structures.

12. Weathering, sediment production and soils.

13. Detrital sediments and sedimentary rocks.

14. Biochemical sedimentary rocks.

15. Metamorphism.

16. Metamorphism: stress, deformation and structures.

17. Texture and classification of metamorphic rocks.

18. Metamorphic zones, facies and facies series.

19. Mineral resources and hazards.

References.

Index.

Periodic table.

List of elements.

Rezensionen

"In recent years an increasing number of geoscience departments
have elected to combine their introductory mineralogy and petrology
courses into a single, one-term "earth materials" course. As a
result there has been a need for a textbook that integrates both
topics, and this is the niche that Hefferan and O'Brien seek
to fill with Earth Materials. Their book provides a
clearly written and well-illustrated overview of mineralogy and
petrology that is suitable for an undergraduate audience." (Jeffrey
H. Tepper, American Mineralogist, Volume 97, 2012)

"There is a pressing need for a single book that compresses the
most significant aspects of material previously presented in
multiple standard rigorous courses to meet the generally less
demanding requirements of much of today's job market.
Hefferan and O'Brien have accomplished this task with Earth
Materials. This work should fill an important niche for
lower- to intermediate- level earth and/or environmental science
courses." (CHOICE, January 2011)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: earth sciences • Erde • Geologie • Geomorphologie • Geowissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-1964-7 / 1444319647
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-1964-4 / 9781444319644