Fundamentals of Physical Geology

• Main Author: Jain, Sreepat (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Geology
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Geophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

Physical Geology is a vast subject and it is not possible to cover all aspects in one book. This book does not invent the wheel but merely put together sets of updated but concise material on Physical Geology with lots of illustrations. All illustrations are created by hand and give a real classroom...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Solar System: Sun and Planets
• The Cosmic Bodies
• The Planet Earth
• The Earth's Interior
• The Geological Timescale
• Weathering and Mass Wasting
• Stream
• Groundwater
• Karst
• Glaciers
• Ocean
• Aeolian Processes
• Plate Tectonics
• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes.