Earth: Then and Now
Introducing the Earth. Part 1 Physical geology - Earth materials and processes: minerals igneous rocks and processes, volcanoes weathering, soil, sediment and sedimentary rocks metamorphism and metamorphic rocks plate tectonics earthquakes, seismic waves and the Earth's interior the continental crust ocean basins, coastal processes streams groundwater and water resources landslides and mass wasting ice, wind and climate. Part 2 Historical geology - time and theevolution of the Earth: geological time fossils and evolution the Archean the Proterozoic the earlt Proterozoic the late Proterozoic the Mesozoic Mesozoic life the Cenozoic. Part 3 Looking to the future - Earth resources: mineral resources. Appendices: mineral and rock identification fossil phyla representative localities unit conversions.