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Author | : Michael Allaby |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1321 |
Release | : 2020-01-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0192575708 |
This new edition includes 10,000 entries which cover all areas of geoscience, including planetary science, oceanography, palaeontology, mineralogy and volcanology. In this edition, 675 new entries have been added, and include expanded coverage of planetary geology and earth-observing-satellites. Other new entries terms such as Ianammox, Boomerangian, earth rheological layering, and metamorphic rock classification. The entries are also complemented by more than 130 diagrams and numerous web links that are listed on a regularly updated dedicated companion website. Appendices supplement the A-Z and have been extended to include three new tables on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, Avalanche Classes, and the Volcanic Explosivity Index. The list of satellite missions has also been revised and updated to include recent developments. A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences is an authoritative, and jargon-free resource for students of geology, geography, geosciences, physical science, and those in related disciplines.
Author | : Klaus K. E. Neuendorf |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : 9780922152766 |
The fifth edition of the Glossary of Geology contains nearly 40,000 entries, including 3.600 new terms and nearly 13,000 entries with revised definitions from the previous edition. In addition to definitions, many entries include background information and aids to syllabication. The Glossary draws its authority from the expertise of more than 100 geoscientists in many specialties who reviewed definitions and added new terms.
Author | : Dorothy Farris Lapidus |
Publisher | : Collins |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : 9780007232260 |
This fully comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of geology, encompasses all the major areas of study in over 4500 entries, making current terminology accessible for both students of geology and the general reader.
Author | : McGraw-Hill Education |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2003-01-27 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780071410441 |
Derived from the content of the respected McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, each title provides thousands of definitions of words and phrases encountered in a specific discipline. All include: * Pronunciation guide for every term * Acronyms, cross-references, and abbreviations * Appendices with conversion tables; listings of scientific, technical, and mathematical notation; tables of relevant data; and more * A convenient, quick-find format
Author | : Philip Kearey |
Publisher | : Penguin Global |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Provides concise definitions for more than 7,700 terms used in geology.
Author | : American Geological Institute |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 1984-04-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0385181019 |
From Aa toZweikanter, this popular dictionary has now been revised and updated. This edition includes over 1,000 new terms plus: -accurate definitions without technical jargon -many word origins -hyphenation and pronunciation guide -commonly used abbreviations -a geologic time and life chart The definitions in this book are drawn largely from the autoritative 36,000-term Glossary Of Geology, to which nearly 150 specialists from all fields of the geosciences contributed. Both the Glossary and this Dictionary were prepared as a service of the American Geological Institute, a federation of geoscience societies united to provide information to the science community and the public.
Author | : Clara Mabel Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Ailsa Allaby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Earth sciences |
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Author | : William Humble |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Dorothy Farris Lapidus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780871967039 |
Defines more than three thousand terms dealing with rocks, rock formations, erosion, plate tectonics, volcanoes, glaciers, earthquakes, seismology, fuels, minerals, and continental drift