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DK eyewitness books: earth/

Susanna Van Rose

DK eyewitness books: earth/ Susanna Van Rose - United States Dorling Kindersley Publisher 1994 - 64 pages; illustrations 26 cm

Includes index

What makes up the Earth---Early ideas about the earth---A cocoon of gas---Climate in the past---Watery planet--The properties of water----Realms of ice---The building blocks---Investigating rocks---Igneous rocks--Sedimentary rocks---Metamorphic rocks---The challenge of the ocean--Modern oceanography--Continental drift--Plate tectonics--Formation of the ocean floor-Exploring the interior----Earthquake and seismology--Volcanology---Mountain building--Plateaus and rifts--Weathering processes--Life from rock---Erosion---Deposition---Glaciation---The age of the earth---Naming the earth

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Earth sciences-Juvenile literature

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