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

Giovanni B. Rafferty scrive delle operazioni della Terra e dell'ambiente. Attualmente ricopre il ruolo di Editore di scienze della terra e della vita, occupandosi di climatologia, geologia, zoologia e altri argomenti relativi al mondo naturale. Prima di entrare a far parte dell'Encyclopaedia Britannica nel 2006, ha ricoperto incarichi di insegnamento presso la Lewis University, la Roosevelt University e l'Università dell'Illinois a Urbana-Champaign.

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