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

juan b Rafferty escribe sobre las operaciones de la Tierra y el medio ambiente. Actualmente se desempeña como Editor de Ciencias de la Tierra y la Vida, cubriendo climatología, geología, zoología y otros temas relacionados con el mundo natural. Antes de unirse a Encyclopaedia Britannica en 2006, ocupó cargos docentes en la Universidad Lewis, la Universidad Roosevelt y la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign.

Rocks (Geology: Landforms, Minerals, and Rocks) pdf por 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.