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

Jean B Rafferty écrit sur les opérations terrestres et l'environnement. Il est actuellement rédacteur en chef des sciences de la Terre et de la vie, couvrant la climatologie, la géologie, la zoologie et d'autres sujets liés au monde naturel. Avant de rejoindre l'Encyclopaedia Britannica en 2006, il a occupé des postes d'enseignement à l'Université Lewis, à l'Université Roosevelt et à l'Université de l'Illinois à Urbana-Champaign.

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