Visualizing Geology

By Barbara W. Murck

Book Overview

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Visualizing Geology, Binder Ready Version, 4th Edition introduces students to geology and Earth system science through the distinctive mode of visual learning that is the hallmark of the Wiley Visualizing series. Readers learn that the geologic features we see and experience result from interactions among three grand cycles, which extend from Earths core to the fringes of our atmosphere: the tectonic cycle, the rock cycle, and the water cycle.

• Format: Loose Leaf
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118996518
• ISBN13: 9781118996515
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

A great introduction to geology

Visualizing Geology was written as a textbook for introductory college geology. I read it for enjoyment and was delighted with the book's organization and style. The authors have a remarkable understanding of what a neophyte (like me) will comprehend and find interesting. They augment comparatively brief descriptions with outstanding photos, diagrams and drawings. The result is a quick and clear presentation of concepts and phenomena. Particularly wonderful is the section on metamorphic rock. The pictorial approach is at its best explaining the conditions and forces turning shale to slate to phyllite and on to schist and gneiss. Another highlight is the second to last chapter - a discussion of the 'co-development' of the lithosphere and biosphere. My only regret is that they don't go into a little more detail explaining evidence for and principles underlying certain geological processes. It's as though they sometimes stop just short of the punchline. But then it is an introductory text.