Publisher's Synopsis
"Introduction to Physical Geology" covers the essentials of the subject, integrating basic concepts throughout. It presents the material via the authors statement-discussion example approach, which aims to help students to immediately recognize essential concepts and guides them to a greater understanding of the earth.;Amongst the features discussed are plate tectonic theory, the hydrologic system and its subsystems, historical aspects of geologic times weather, changes in the composition and position of the water table, and the effects of pleistocene glaciation of life forms, the air, and the oceans.;A study guide is available for this book.
