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The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science, 2nd Edition
Brian J. Skinner,
Yale Univ.
Stephen C. Porter,
Univ. of Washington
Daniel B. Botkin,
The Center for the Study of the Environment, George Mason Univ.
ISBN: 978-0-471-16114-1
©1999
576 pages
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Table of Contents
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- The Earth System
- Fellow Travelers in Space: Earth's Nearest Neighbors
- The Sun, Giver of Life
- The Rock Cycle and Plate Tectonics
- Earthquakes and the Earth's Interior
- Earth Materials: Minerals and Rocks
- The Heat Within: Magma and Volcanoes
- The Earth's Evolving Crust
- Water on the Land
- The World of Snow and Ice
- The World Ocean
- Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere
- Winds, Weather, and Deserts
- The Earth's Changing Climates
- A Planetary Perspective on Life
- Geochemistry and Life
- Biological Evolution and the History of the Biosphere
- Resources of the Earth
- The Changing Face of the Land
- Global Change: A Planet Under Stress
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