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• Introduction
• A view of earth
• The earth sciences
• Earth science and the environment
• The nature of scientific inquiry
• Studying earth science
• Box 1.1 Earth as a System
• Box 1.2 Earth's place in the cosmos
• 1 Minerals: Building Blocks of Rocks
• Box 1.1 Carrot, karat, carat
• Box 1.2 Gemstones
• 2 Rocks: Materials of the Lithosphere
• Box 2.1 Asbestos: What are the risks?
• 3 Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting
• Box 3.1 Acid precipitation: A human impact on the earth system
• Box 3.2 Laterites and the clearing of the rainforest
• Box 3.3 The Gros Ventre slide: A classic case study
• 4 Running Water and Groundwater
• Box 4.1 The effects of urbanization on discharge
• Box 4.2 The midwest floods of 1993
• Box 4.3 Dowsing for water
• Box 4.4 Geothermal energy: An alternative
• 5 Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind
• Box 5.1 Do glaciers move? An application of the scientific method
• Box 5.2 What if the ice melted?
• Box 5.3 Common misconceptions about deserts
• Box 5.4 Dust bowl: Soil erosion in the great plains
• 6 Earthquakes and Earth's Interior
• 6.1 Damaging earthquakes east of the Rockies
• Box 6.2 Tsunami warning system
• 7 Plate Tectonics
• Box 7.1 A new test for plate tectonics
• Box 7.2 Plate tectonics into the future
• Box 7.3 The earth system: Plate tectonics and the rock cycle
• 8 Igneous Activity
• Box 8.1 The year without a summer
• Box 8.2 Volcano sizes
• Box 8.3 Volcanic activity and climate
• 9 Mountain Building
• Box 9.1 The San Andreas fault system
• Box 9.2 Oil traps
• Box 9.3 The Rocky Mountains
• 10 Geologic Time
• Box 10.1 Radon
• 11 Earth History: A Brief Summary
• Box 11.1 The great paleozoic extinction
• Box 11.2 Farewell to the dinosaurs
• 12 Ocean Waters and the Ocean Floor
• Box 12.1 Evidence for the existence of turbidity currents
• Box 12.2 Seafloor sediments and climatic change
• 13 The Restless Ocean
• Box 13.1 Tidal power
• Box 13.2 Is global warming causing sea levels to rise?
• 14 Composition, Structure, and Temperature
• Box 14.1 Altering the atmosphere's composition: Sources and types of air pollution
• Box 14.2 The ozone problem
• Box 14.3 Solar energy
• 15 Moisture
• Box 15.1 Dry air at 100 percent relative humidity?
• Box 15.2 Atmospheric stability influences air pollution
• Box 15.3 Precipitation probability forecasts
• 16 Air Pressure and Wind
• Box 16.1 Scales of atmospheric motion
• Box 16.2 Wind energy: An alternative with potential
• 17 Weather Patterns and Severe Storms
• Box 17.1 Lake-effect snow
• Box 17.2 The deadliest weather
• Box 17.3 Hurricane Andrew
• 18 Climate
• Box 18.1 The world's hottest and coldest places
• Box 18.2 Precipitation records and mountainous terrain
• Box 18.3 Climate change in cities
• Box 18.4 Earth as a system: Climate feedback mechanisms
• 19 Earth's Place in the Universe
• Box 19.1 Proof for Earth's rotation
• Box 19.2 Astrology
• Box 19.3 Calendars
• 20 Touring Our Solar System
• Box 20.1 Venus and the runaway greenhouse effect: A lesson for planet Earth?
• Box 20.2 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• Box 20.3 Discovery of planet X
• Box 20.4 Is Earth on a collision course?
• Box 20.5 Comet Shoemaker Levy impacts Jupiter
• 21 Light, Astronomical Observations, and the Sun
• Box 21.1 The largest telescopes
• Box 21.2 Variable sun and climate change
• 22 Beyond Our Solar System
• Box 22.1 Determining distance from magnitude
• Box 22.2 Supernova 1987 A
• Box 22.3 From stardust to you
• Appendix A Metric and English Units Compared
• Appendix B Mineral Identification Key
• Appendix C Earth's Grid System
• Appendix D Topographic Maps
• Appendix E Star Charts
• Appendix F World Soils
• Appendix G Landforms of the Conterminous United States
• Appendix H Periodic Table of the Elements