The Handbook of Geoscience

Contents: 1. The Basics.  2.  Earth’s Breath. 3.  Earth’s Geosphere (Lithosphere). 4.  Hydrosphere. 5.  Pedosphere. 6.  Biosphere. 7. Geodesy.

Written in an engaging and highly readable style, The Handbook of Geoscience is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-scientific professionals, and general readers with little or no science background. It is a user-friendly overview of our physical, biological, and ecological environment, one that offers up-to-date coverage of the major scientific fields that form the structure of geoscience. Students who are enrolled in a course on geoscience or one of its many subdisciplines will find this work an invaluable resource to support and supplement classroom instruction. The emphasis is on readability, with clear, example-driven explanations refined by more than 35 years of experience of instruction and student feedback.