| Description |
224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Facts on File science library |
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Facts on File science library.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Contains glossary of terms, biographies of sientists, chronology of discoveries in Earth science, tables, charts, diagrams, measurements, formulas, and calculations. |
| Contents |
Air. -- Animals. -- Astronomers. -- Atomic theory. -- Atoms. -- Big bang theory. -- Biologists. -- Birds. -- Black holes. -- Botany. -- Chemistry. -- Climates. -- Clouds. -- Coal. -- Coastline. -- Comets. -- Cretaceous period. -- Cyclones. -- Desert. -- Devonian period. -- Diamonds. -- Dunes. -- Dust. -- Earth. -- Earthquake. -- Eclipse. -- Electricity. -- Elements. -- Eons. -- Epochs. -- Erosion. -- Evolution. -- Fish. -- Floods. -- Fossils. -- Galaxies. -- Gas. -- Geography. -- Geology. -- Geophysicists. -- Glaciers. -- Gravity. -- Greek philosophers. -- Greenhouse effect. -- Heat. -- Holes. -- Hurricanes. -- Ice Age. -- Igneous rocks. -- Insects. -- Jurassic period. -- Lakes. -- Light. -- Limestone. -- Magnetic field. -- Magnetism. -- Mathematicians. -- Mesozoic era. -- Metals. -- Metamorphic rocks. -- Meteorites. -- Meteorologists. -- Minerals. -- Moon. -- Mountains. -- Natural gas. -- Naturalists. -- Navigation. -- Ocean. -- Oil. -- Paleontologists. -- Paleozoic era. -- Planet. -- Plants. -- Poles. -- Precambrian. -- Quaternary period. -- Radiation. -- Radio. -- Rivers. -- Rock. -- Satellites. -- Sediments. -- Seismology. -- Silurian period. -- Stars. -- Streams. -- Sun. -- Telescope. -- Temperature. -- Tetiary period. -- Tides. Time. -- Triassic period. -- Troposphere. -- Universe. -- Valleys. -- Volcanoes. -- Water. -- Waves. -- Weather. -- Wind. -- Wetlands. -- Zoologists. |
| Subject |
Earth sciences -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Earth sciences. (OCoLC)fst00900729
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Geowissenschaften.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Diagram Group.
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| ISBN |
0816040818 (acid-free paper) |
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9780816040810 (acid-free paper) |
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9780816040810 (acid-free paper) |
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9780816040827 (acid-free paper) |
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0816045879 (M) |
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9780816045877 (M) |
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0816045860 |
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9780816045860 |
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