The Geology Companion Essentials for Understanding the Earth

• Main Authors: Prost, Gary L., Prost, Benjamin P.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton Routledge 2017; CRC Press; CRC Press LLC
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Benjamin P. Prost; Climate change; ENVIROnetBASE; environmental hazards; ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERINGnetBASE; ENVIRONMENTALSCIENCEnetBASE; Gary L. Prost; Geology; Geology - Earth Sciences; GEOnetBASE; Groundwater; Mineralogy; Minerals; Minerals > Collection and preservation; Minerals, Petroleum; Oceans; Rocks; Rocks > Collection and preservation; SCI-TECHnetBASE; STMnetBASE; Great Oxygenation Event; Oceanic Spreading Centers; Oceanic Crust; Siccar Point; Kaibab Plateau; Continental Volcanic Arcs; Gros Morne National Park; Mountain Building Event; Coast Range Ophiolite; Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation; North American Tectonic Plate; Petroleum Geologists; Plagioclase Feldspar; Alkaline Igneous Rocks; Geological Survey Bulletin; Potentiometric Surface Map; Source Rock; Deep Sea Trenches; Zion National Park; Structure Contour Map; Algal Organic Matter; Mineral Alteration Maps; Mid-ocean Ridges; Volcanic Island Arcs; Rob Lavinsky

This practical guidebook provides a basic grounding in the principles of geology and explains how to apply them. Using this book, readers will be able to figure out whether they are standing on an ancient seafloor, coal swamp, or sand dune. They will be able to determine the geologic hazards in thei...