Aird Peter. Introduction to deepwater sedimentary environments

5th ed. Guide book. London, 1990. Edward Arnold. - pp. 76. The book is designed primarily for university and college students taking geology as an honours course or as a subsidiary subject. The book shows the basics of geological mapping and map reading.

—9th ed. - The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2011. 670 p. ISBN-13: 978-0-07-336940- 2. Качество - pdf макет. Contents: Introducing geology, the essentials of plate tectonics, and other important concepts Earth’s interior and geophysical properties The sea floor Plate tectonics Mountain belts and the continental crust Geologic structures Earthquakes Time and geology Atoms, elements, and minerals Volcanism and extrusive rocks Igneous rocks, intrusive acti...

This textbook details basic principles of planetary science that help to unify the study of the solar system. It is organized in a hierarchical manner so that every chapter builds upon preceding ones. Starting with historical perspectives on space exploration and the development of the scientific method, the book leads the reader through the solar system. Coverage explains that the origin and subsequent evolution of planets and their satellites c...

Изд-во Springer, 2010. 832p. This book presents a summary of the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains for Earth scientists who may want to work there or who need an overview of the geologic history of this region. In addition, the properties of the East Antarctic ice sheet and of the meteorites that accumulate on its surface are treated in separate chapters. The presentation ends with the Cenozoic glaciation of the Transantarctic Mountains inc...

Cambridge University Press, 2008, 463 с. Учебник по реологии горных пород, написанный одним из ведущих исследователей в данном направлении. Основной упор сделан на реологию пород при высоких температурах и давлениях, характерных для нижней коры и мантии Земли. Part I General background. Stress and strain. Thermodynamics. Phenomenological theory of deformation . Part II Materials science of deformation. Elasticity. Crystalline defects. Experiment...

Brooks Cole Publ. 1997. p. 432. Written for an introductory one-semester geology course, this text is a brief version of Thompson/Turk's MODERN PHYSICAL GEOLOGY. Thompson/Turk's brief text offers professors a more streamlined alternative to the longer, more detailed introductory text. INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOLOGY emphasizes human-environment interactions and discusses the latest research in physical geology. Beautiful illustrations and clear...