Geology for dummies:

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Studying the Earth -- Chapter 1 Rocks for Jocks (and Everybody Else) -- Finding Your Inner Scientist -...

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1. Verfasser: Spooner, Alecia M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated [2020]
Ausgabe:2nd edition
Schriftenreihe:for dummies
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Zusammenfassung:Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Studying the Earth -- Chapter 1 Rocks for Jocks (and Everybody Else) -- Finding Your Inner Scientist -- Making observations every day -- Jumping to conclusions -- Focusing on Rock Formation and Transformation -- Understanding how rocks form -- Tumbling through the rock cycle -- Mapping Continental Movements -- Unifying geology with plate tectonics theory -- Debating a mechanism for plate movements -- Moving Rocks around on Earth's Surface -- Interpreting a Long History of Life on Earth -- Using relative versus absolute dating -- Witnessing evolution in the fossil record -- Chapter 2 Observing Earth through a Scientific Lens -- Realizing That Science Is Not Just for Scientists -- Using a Methodical Approach: The Scientific Method -- Sensing something new -- I have a hypothesis! -- Testing your hypothesis: Experiments -- Crunching the numbers -- Interpreting results -- Sharing the findings -- Building New Knowledge: A Scientific Theory -- It's never "just a theory" -- Scientific theory versus scientific law -- The road to paradigms -- Speaking in Tongues: Why Geologists Seem to Speak a Separate Language -- Lamination vs. foliation: Similar outcomes from different processes -- Gabbro vs. basalt: Different outcomes from similar processes -- Chapter 3 From Here to Eternity: The Past, Present, and Future of Geologic Thought -- Catastrophe Strikes Again and Again -- Early Thoughts on the Origin of Rocks -- Developing Modern Geologic Understanding -- Reading the rock layers: Steno's stratigraphy -- These things take time! Hutton's hypothesis -- What has been will be: Lyell's principles -- Uniformi-what? Understanding the Earth through Uniformitarianism.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (411 Seiten)
ISBN:9781119652915

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