Rocks (Geology: Landforms, Minerals, and Rocks) PDF

Johannes B. Rafferty schreibt über Erdoperationen und die Umwelt. Derzeit ist er als Redakteur für Erd- und Biowissenschaften tätig und befasst sich mit Klimatologie, Geologie, Zoologie und anderen Themen im Zusammenhang mit der natürlichen Welt. Bevor er 2006 zu Encyclopaedia Britannica kam, hatte er Lehraufträge an der Lewis University, der Roosevelt University und der University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign inne.

Rocks (Geology: Landforms, Minerals, and Rocks) pdf von John P Rafferty

Often concealing millennia worth of Earths history, rocks seem to project an impression of durability and permanence that belies their transformation over time. Seen in all shapes and sizes and found in many of the planets ecosystems, rocks have been subject to various natural forces that have affected such attributes as their elasticity, strength, and ductility (that is, their ability to be fashioned into a new form). The general properties as well as the three major categories of rockigneous, sedimentary, and metamorphicare all examined in depth in this penetrating volume.