Book Title: Physical Geology

Authors: Steven Earle and Earle, Steven

Book Description: Note: The second edition of this book was published September 2019. You can find it here: Physical Geology - 2nd Edition.

Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada. The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departments at Universities and Colleges across British Columbia and elsewhere.

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Book Description

Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more.  It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada.  The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departments at Universities and Colleges across British Columbia and elsewhere.

Authors

Steven Earle and Earle, Steven

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Physical Geology Copyright © 2015 by Steven Earle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

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Title
Physical Geology
Authors
Steven Earle and Earle, Steven
License

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Physical Geology Copyright © 2015 by Steven Earle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

© 2015 Steven Earle

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Earle, S. (2015). Physical Geology. Victoria, B.C.: BCcampus. Retrieved from https://opentextbc.ca/geology/

Cover image attribution:

Mount Robson, British Columbia (3954 m, highest peak in the Canadian Rockies), with the Berg Glacier (left), the Mist Glacier (right) and Berg Lake in the foreground. Mount Robson is almost entirely made up of Cambrian sedimentary rock (ca. 500 Ma) that was pushed eastward and thrust upward during the formation of the Rocky Mountains, mostly during the past 100 million years. By Heather Earle is used under a CC BY 4.0 Licence.
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-989623-71-8
Print ISBN: 978-1-989623-70-1

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Primary Subject
Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere
Publisher
BCcampus
Publication Date
September 1, 2015
Ebook ISBN
978-1-989623-71-8
Print ISBN
978-1-989623-70-1