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Material Type: | Document |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom L McKnight; Darrel Hess |
ISBN: | 0130202630 9780130202635 0130125911 9780130125910 0130257109 9780130257109 |
OCLC Number: | 43724491 |
Description: | xvii, 604 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.) |
Details: | System requirements for accompanying computer disk: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0x; Macintosh Power PC System 7.6.1 or above. |
Contents: | Introduction to earth -- Portraying earth -- Introduction to the atmosphere -- Isolation and temperature -- Atmospheric pressure and wind -- Atmospheric moisture -- Transient atmospheric flows and disturbances -- Climatic zones and types -- The hydrosphere -- Cycles and patterns in the biosphere -- Terrestrial flora and fauna -- Soils -- Introduction to landform study -- The internal processes -- Preliminaries to erosion: weathering and mass wasting -- The fluvial processes -- Solution processes and karst topography -- The topography of arid lands -- Glacial modification of terrain -- Coastal processes and terrain -- Coastal processes and terrain -- Appendix I: Families of map projections -- Appendix II: Topographic map symbols -- Appendix III: The weather station model -- Appendix IV: Meteorological tables -- Appendix V: The international system of units -- Appendix VI: The soil taxonomy. |
Series Title: | Virtual field trip edition. |
Responsibility: | Tom L. McKnight, Darrel Hess. |
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