Prenhall geology 9th edition

Websites and online courses. Other Student Resources. About the Author s. Previous editions. Environmental Geology, 8th Edition. Sign In We're sorry! Username Password Forgot your username or password? Sign Up Already have an access code? Instructor resource file download The work is protected by local and international copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning.

Signed out You have successfully signed out and will be required to sign back in should you need to download more resources. On-line Supplement. Parent Material. Plants and Animals. How Soil Is Eroded. Rates of Erosion. Sedimentation and Chemical Pollution. Other Deposits. Box 5. Conglomerate and Breccia. Oil and Natural Gas. Heat as a Metamorphic Agent. Pressure and Differential Stress. Chemically Active Fluids. Foliated Textures. Other Metamorphic Textures. Foliated Rocks. Nonfoliated Rocks.

Contact or Thermal Metamorphism. Hydrothermal Metamorphism. Regional Metamorphism. Other Metamorphic Environments. Textural Variations. Index Minerals and Metamorphic Grade. The Role of Mass Wasting. Slopes Change Through Time. The Role of Water. Oversteepened Slopes. Removal of Vegetation. Earthquakes as Triggers. Landslides Without Triggers? Type of Material.

Type of Motion. Rate of Movement. Debris Flows in Semiarid Regions. Box 8. Drainage Basins. River Systems. Gradient and Channel Characteristics. Changes from Upstream to Downstream. Bedrock Channels. Alluvial Channels. Valley Deepening. Valley Widening.

Changing Base Level and Incised Meanders. Natural Levees. Alluvial Fans. Causes and Types of Floods. Flood Control.

Box 9. Variations in the Water Table. Interaction Between Groundwater and Streams. Permeability, Aquitards, and Aquifers. Treating Groundwater as a Nonrenewable Resource. Land Subsidence Caused by Groundwater Withdrawal. Groundwater Contamination. Karst Topography. Valley Alpine Glaciers. Other Types of Glaciers. Rates of Glacial Movement. Budget of a Glacier. Glaciated Valleys.

Types of Glacial Drift. Moraines, Outwash Plains, and Kettles. Drumlins, Eskers, and Kames. Plate Tectonics. Other Factors. Low-Latitude Deserts. People and the Environment: Explores the application of geology to understanding and solving problems arising from the interaction between people and the natural environment. Understanding Earth: Highlights the observational techniques and reasoning processes involved in developing scientific knowledge.

Students Sometimes Ask: Poses common and often entertaining student questions contributed by instructors around the country. Whether heading off a potential misunderstanding or addressing the everyday impact of geology, the SSAs are always illuminating. Designed as an interactive learning experience for geology students, GEODe fully exploits the multimedia platform to provide exercises and activities that allow students to examine and review important facts and concepts.

Excellent animations, illustrations, photographs and optional narration accompany clear explanations to make this an especially effective learning tool. Many sections are also appropriate for use by instructors as classroom demonstrations. New to This Edition. Previous editions. Sign In We're sorry! Username Password Forgot your username or password? Sign Up Already have an access code? Educators can easily customize the table of contents, schedule readings, and share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class motivating them to keep reading and keep learning.

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Available for select titles. Pre-Lecture Reading Quizzes ensure that students complete the assigned reading before class and stay on track with reading assignments. Deliver trusted content GigaPan Activities allow students to take advantage of a virtual field experience with high-resolution picture technology that has been developed by Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with NASA.

Activities are assignable in Mastering and accessible to students through the Study Area. Geoscience Animations illuminate the most difficult-to-visualize topics from across the physical geosciences, such as solar system formation, hydrologic cycle, plate tectonics, glacial advance and retreat, global warming, and more.

The animation activities include audio narration, a text transcript, and assignable questions with specific wrong-answer feedback. Animations are assignable in Mastering and accessible to students through the Study Area. GEODe Tutorials provide an interactive visual walkthrough of each chapter's core content through animation, videos, illustrations, photographs, and narration. Created by Dennis Tasa, activities include assessment questions to test those concepts with hints and wrong-answer feedback.

Tutorials are assignable in Mastering and accessible to students through the Study Area. GeoTutor Activities are based on data collected from educators across the country, addressing the topics most often ranked as tough for students to understand in a visually compelling way.

These process-oriented videos can be accessed through media links in the text or through embedded links in the eText,and are assignable in Mastering Geology. These extraordinary field trips can be accessed through media links in the text or through embedded links in the eText and are assignable in Mastering Geology.

The tutorials can be accessed through links in the text or through embedded links in the eText,and are assignable in Mastering Geology. Through links in the text and embedded links in the eText, students are given a view of moving figures rather than static art to depict how geologic processes move throughout time.

These videos can be accessed through links in the text or through embedded links in the eText,and are assignable in Mastering Geology. Now fully mobile, with enhanced analysis tools, the ability for students to geolocate themselves in the data, and the ability for students to upload their own data for advanced map making, this tool includes zoom and annotation functionality with hundreds of map layers leveraging recent data from sources such as the PRB, the World Bank, NOAA, NASA, USGS, United Nations, the CIA, and more.

MapMaster 2. New to This Edition. About the book A learning experience that brings Earth science to life Content, data, and information ensures Foundations of Earth Science is current, relevant, and highly readable for beginning students.

Organization in the geology portion of the text supports better comprehension of the material. SmartFigures give students a variety of ways to access the five types of dynamic media below to help them visualize physical processes and concepts. SmartFigure Project Condor Quadcopter Videos feature three geologists, using a quadcopter-mountead GoPro camera, who venture into the field to film key geologic locations and processes.

SmartFigure Mobile Field Trips in the air and on the ground take students to iconic locations with geologist-pilot-photographer Michael Collier to learn about iconic landscapes in North America and beyond that relate to discussions in the chapter.

SmartFigure Tutorials present students with a 3- to 4-minute feature mini lesson , most narrated and annotated by Professor Callan Bentley. Brief SmartFigure Animations created by text illustrator Dennis Tasa animate a process or concept depicted in the textbooks figures.

SmartFigure Videos are short video clips that help illustrate diverse subjects, such as mineral properties and the structure of ice sheets, and include new media such as quadcopter drone videos of coastal erosion in California. Brief, end-of-chapter Data Analysis activities send students outside of the book to online science tools and datasets from organizations such as NASA, NOAA, and USGS, empowering students to apply and extend chapter concepts and develop their data analysis and critical-thinking skills.