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Chapter 1, Setting the Stage for Learning about the Earth
Chapter 2, The Way the Earth Works: Examining Plate Tectonics
- Basic Plate Boundaries
- Formation of Ocean Crust
- The Process of Subduction
- Transform Faulting
- What a Geologist Sees: Hot Spot Volcanoes
- The Process of Rifting
- Zoomable Art: The Theory of Plate Tectonics
- What a Geologist Sees: Plate Boundaries
- Development of A Collisional Mountain Belt
- Zoomable Art: The Collision of India with Asia
Chapter 4, Minerals, Rocks, and the Rock Cycle
Chapter 5, Using Igneous Rocks to Interpret Earth History
- What a Geologist Imagines: Volcanic Neck at Shiprock
- What a Geologist Sees: Antarctic Sill
- What a Geologist Sees: Pluton at Torres del Paines
- Zoomable Art: The Formation of Igneous Rocks
- Formation of Ocean Crust
- What A Geologist Imagines: Eruption of Vesuvius
Chapter 6, Using Sedimentary Rocks to Interpret Earth History
- Formation of Cross Beds
- What a Geologist Sees: Formation of Cross Beds in Zion National Park
- Zoomable Art: The Formation of Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 7, Interpreting Metamorphic Rocks
- Foliation in Metamorphic Rock (Preferred Orientation)
- What a Geologist Sees: Compositional Banding in Gneiss
- Zoomable Art: Environments of Metamorphism
Chapter 9, Working with Topographic Maps
Chapter 10, Landscapes Formed by Streams
- Evolution of a Meandering Stream
- Zoomable Art: River Systems
- What A Geologist Sees: Channeled Scablands
Chapter 11, Glacial Landscapes
Chapter 12, Groundwater as a Landscape Former and Resource
Chapter 13, Processes and Landforms in Arid Environments
Chapter 14, Shoreline Landscapes
Chapter 15, Interpreting Geologic Structures on Block Diagrams, Geologic Maps, and Cross Sections
- Types of Faults
- What a Geologist Sees: Offset Fence along San Andreas Fault
- What A Geologist Sees: Offset Stream Channel Along San Andreas Fault
- Zoomable Art: Faulting in the Crust
- What A Geologist Sees: Fault Offsetting
- What A Geologist Sees: Thrust Fault
- What A Geologist Sees: Horsts and Grabens
- What A Geologist Sees: Fold Trains in Ireland
- Process of Folding
- What A Geologist Sees: Flexural Fold
- What A Geologist Sees: Flow Fold
- What A Geologist Sees: Cleavage in an Anticline
- What A Geologist Sees: Shear Movement
Chapter 16, Earthquakes and Seismology
Chapter 17, Interpreting Geologic History: What Happened and When Did It Happen?
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