Understanding Earth

by John P. Grotzinger, Thomas H. Jordan, Frank Press

Book Overview

Geology is everywhere in our daily lives. We are surrounded by materials and resources extracted from the Earth, our climate is changing at alarming rates, and hazards due to Earth's processes are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1429219513
• ISBN13: 9781429219518
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This is an excellent that explains earth processes extremely well and keeps your attention the entire time.

Fantastic advertisement for the science of geology

This is an amazing and wonderful book that will surely attract many new students who would otherwise not choose to study geology. It is full of colour pictures and photographs, written in an extremely entertaining style, and is also full of high-quality science put in perspectives that I have not seen in any other text. The authors truly have everything at their fingertips. The book comprehensively covers the full breadth of what the reader might infer from the title "Understanding Earth", including (in addition to geology) weather and climate, the evolution of life (concentrating mainly on microbes), biogeology, human impact on the earth, and study of the other terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars). The information presented is up to date and, astonishingly given its publication date, includes detailed coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, and results of the latest space probes to other planets.