Table of Contents

PART 1 THE DYNAMIC EARTH - In the Beginning and Now - Plate Tectonics: The Unifying Theory - PART II ROCKS, DEFORMATION, AND THE GEOLOGIC RECORD - Minerals: Building Blocks of Rocks - Rocks: The Products of Geologic Processes - Igneous Rocks: Solids from Melts - Volcanism - Weathering and Erosion - Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks - Metamorphic Rocks - The Rock Record and the Geologic Time Scale - Folds, Faults, and Other Records of Rock Deformation - PART III. SURFACE PROCESSES: INTERACTIONS OF CLIMATE AND ROCKS - Mass Wasting - The Hydrologic Cycle and Groundwater - Streams: Transport to the Oceans - Winds and Deserts - Glaciers: The Work of Ice - Marine Processes - Landscapes: Tectonic and Climate Interactions - PART IV. INTERNAL PROCESSES, EXTERNAL EFFECTS - Earthquakes - Evolution of the Continents - Exploring Earth's Interior - PART V. EARTH SYSTEMS AND SOCIETY - Geobiology - Energy and Mineral Resources from the Earth - Earth Systems and Human Impacts - - - - - -

About the Author

FRANK PRESS has made pioneering contributions to the fields of geophysics, oceanography, lunar and planetary sciences and natural resource exploration. - He has been named most influential scientist in the U.S by U.S.News& World Report surveys three times and is currently with the Washington Advisory Group - RAYMOND SIEVER is an internationally known expert in sedimentary petrology, geo-chemistry, and the evolution of oceans and the atmosphere. he is a long-time memeber of Harvard University's department of earth and Planetary Sciences - JOHN GROTZINGER researches the chemical development of the early oceans and atmosphere and the environmental context of early animal evolution at MIT - THOMAS H.JORDAN is based at the University of Southern California where his specialist topics include the nature of plate-tectonic flow and the question of mantle stratification