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Tables of Contents for Geology from Experience
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I Opening the Geolgoist's Tool Kit
1
30
Paper-and-Pencil Tools
1
18
Laboratory Tools: Significant Figures, Interpolation, Time, and Precision
19
12
II Minerals and the Rocks They Form
31
74
Minerals and Gems
31
30
``Fire-Formed'' Igneous Rocks
61
18
Sedimentary Rocks: Formed from Sediments in Water and Wind
79
16
Metamorphic Rocks: Heated, Pressured, Transformed
95
10
III Time Beyond Imaginning
105
34
Geologic Time, Relatively Speaking
105
20
Geologic Time, Absolutely Speaking
125
14
IV Movers and Shakers
139
36
Plate Tectonics: Geology's Grand Theory
139
14
Earthquakes
153
12
Landslides, Slumps, and Creeps
165
10
V Mapping the Sun's Third Planet
175
34
Topographic Maps: Reavealing the Shape of the Land
175
16
Rock Deformation and Geologic Maps
191
18
VI Water: Profoundly Influencing Earth's Surface
209
26
Streams and Flooding
209
16
Groundwater
225
10
VII Change, from Catastrophic to Imperceptible
235
42
Catastrophic Change: Impact Craters and Outburst Flooding
235
16
Gradual Change: Glaciers, Deserts, Shorelines, Climate
251
26
VIII Geology and Wealth
277
1
Economic Geology
277