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Physical Geology by Carla W. Montgomery.

Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: United States of America. Wm. C. Brown Publishers. , 1987Description: xix, 530 p. : ill, (some col,) ; 28 cmISBN: 0697008517Subject(s): GeologyDDC classification: SHS 550 M76p 1987 Summary: "The book is intended for an introductory-level college course in physical geology. It assumes no prior exposure to college-level mathematics or science. For the most part, metric units are used throughout, except where other units are conventional within a discipline . For the convenience of students not yet comfortable with the metric system, a unit conversion table is given in Appendix C, and English-unit equivalents are occasionaly given within the text also. The subject matter is divided into four parts. In the first part, Fundamentals, the students is introduced to the nature of geology as a science; to the broad out-line of the history of the earth by way of historical perspective; to minerals and rocks, the building blocks of geologic features; and to the concept of time in geology."
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"The book is intended for an introductory-level college course in physical geology. It assumes no prior exposure to college-level mathematics or science. For the most part, metric units are used throughout, except where other units are conventional within a discipline . For the convenience of students not yet comfortable with the metric system, a unit conversion table is given in Appendix C, and English-unit equivalents are occasionaly given within the text also. The subject matter is divided into four parts. In the first part, Fundamentals, the students is introduced to the nature of geology as a science; to the broad out-line of the history of the earth by way of historical perspective; to minerals and rocks, the building blocks of geologic features; and to the concept of time in geology."

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