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For lab courses in Physical Geology.

This lab manual contains a collection of photos of rocks and minerals. With exercises using maps, aerial photos, satellite imagery, and other materials, this classic manual encompasses all the major geologic processes as well as the identification of rocks and minerals.

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• Preface(p. 4)
• Exercise 1 Minerals and Crystal Growth(p. 6)
• Exercise 2 Mineral Identification(p. 10)
• Exercise 3 Igneous Rocks(p. 24)
• Exercise 4 Sedimentary Rocks(p. 41)
• Exercise 5 Metamorphic Rocks(p. 57)
• Exercise 6 Geologic Time--Relative Dating(p. 68)
• Exercise 7 Maps and Aerial Photos(p. 72)
• Exercise 8 Landforms of the United States(p. 90)
• Exercise 9 Stream Erosion and Deposition(p. 95)
• Exercise 10 Mass Movement(p. 112)
• Exercise 11 Groundwater(p. 116)
• Exercise 12 Valley Glaciation(p. 125)
• Exercise 13 Continental Glaciation(p. 134)
• Exercise 14 Shoreline Processes(p. 142)
• Exercise 15 Eolian Processes(p. 156)
• Exercise 16 Structural Geology(p. 162)
• Exercise 17 Seismology(p. 190)
• Exercise 18 Plate Tectonics(p. 196)
• Exercise 19 Divergent Plate Boundaries(p. 206)
• Exercise 20 Transform Plate Boundaries(p. 219)
• Exercise 21 Convergent Boundaries(p. 227)
• Exercise 22 Plumes and Hotspots(p. 238)
• Exercise 23 Planetary Geology(p. 247)