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This textbook is a whole new way to open students' eyes to the physical world around them, to learn how scientists explore it, and what we need to do to both protect ourselves from it (hazards) as well as protect it from us (global change). In just 14 chapters, it offers a well-focused introduction to the basics of geology that emphasise the process of science and how humans interact with our home, Spaceship Earth.

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The Essential Earth

CHAPTER 1 Why We Study Earth.- CHAPTER 2 How We Study Earth.- CHAPTER 3 Plate Tectonics: The Unifying Theory of Geology.- CHAPTER 4 Earth Materials: Minerals and Rocks.- CHAPTER 5 Igneous Processes and Volcanism.- CHAPTER 6 Sedimentation: Rocks Formed by Surface Processes.- CHAPTER 7 Deformation and Metamorphism.- CHAPTER 8 Timing the Geologic Record.- CHAPTER 9 History of Earth.- CHAPTER 10 The Climate System and Glaciation.- CHAPTER 11 The Hydrologic Cycle and Groundwater.- CHAPTER 12 Shaping Earth's Surface: Streams, Coastlines, and Wind.- CHAPTER 13 Earthquakes and Earth Structure.- CHAPTER 14 Human Impact on Earth's Environment.