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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Michael Allaby

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences By Michael Allaby

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences by Michael Allaby


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This dictionary of earth sciences has been revised and updated and contains over 6000 entries, with new material on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy. There is also substantial updating in mineralogy and geophysics, and coverage includes climatology.

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Summary

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences by Michael Allaby

This wide-ranging dictionary of earth sciences has been compiled with the help of a team of specialist contributors, and has been substantially revised and updated for this new edition. It is intended as a reference for all students of the subject, especially those on interdisciplinary courses. The volume contains over 6000 entries, with new material on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy. There is also substantial updating in mineralogy and geophysics, and coverage includes climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology and volcanology. An added section of appendices includes wind strength scales; material, temporal and chronostratigraphic units; and geologic, lunar and Martian time scales The book is intended for students of Earth sciences, geology, geography, meteorology and other related disciplines, and amateur geologists.

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Reviews

I marvel at how the editors have compressed so much so clearly ... a feat which occurs only once in a blue moon -- and even that is defined Nature can really claim to offer comprehensive coverage of the earth sciences TES

Additional information

GOR001695734
9780192800794
0192800795
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences by Michael Allaby
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19990304
631
N/A
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