DK eyewitness books: earth/ Susanna Van Rose
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TextPublication details: United States Dorling Kindersley Publisher 1994Description: 64 pages; illustrations 26 cmISBN: - 0789461684
- 0789455757
- 550 V26
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Junior High Library Junior High School Library | General References | GNR 550 V26 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1-1 | Available | 54601 |
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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