Earth Lab: Exploring the Earth Sciences Lab Manual

By Grenville Draper, Diane Pirie, Claudia Owen

Book Overview

The perfect manual for the lab when studying Earth Science or Physical Geology! The experiments featured in this lab manual teach and reinforce the core skills that characterize the Earth Sciences and illustrate how the scientific method works. Full of engaging activities that are designed to help readers develop data-gathering skills, such as mineral and rock identification, and data-analysis skills, the manual uses clear and easy-to-understand graphs and simple calculations. The authors also introduce readers to the graphical analysis of data via maps and sections that are characteristic of the earth sciences, helping readers develop the skills they need to "read" topographic, geologic, and meteorological maps. Using this manual in conjunction with the interactive experience of a lab, readers learn to understand aerial and satellite images, and perceive the importance of stratigraphic columns, geologic sections, and seismic waves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534379532
• ISBN13: 9780534379537
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Beauty that's more than skin deep.

This is a beautiful lab manual. Glossy pages and excellent pictures. The preparation is well presented and the labs well set out. Complicated procedures make the labs more suitable for university-level or high school honors classes. It would be helpful to have the corresponding text.