عنوان

Earth environments :

0471485322

0471485330

9780471485322

9780471485339

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Earth environments :

[Book]

past, present and future /

David Huddart and Tim Stott.

Hoboken, NJ :

J. Wiley & Sons,

2010.

xv, 896 pages :

illustrations (some color), maps ;

29 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 877-878) and index.

Introduction to earth systems -- Atmospheric and ocean systems. Structure and composition of the atmosphere -- Energy in the atmosphere and the earth heat budget -- Moisture in the atmosphere -- Atmosphere motion -- Weather systems -- World climates -- Ocean structure and circulation patterns -- Atmospheric evolution and climate change -- Principles of climate change -- Endogenic geological systems. Earth materials: mineralogy, rocks and the rock cycle -- The internal structure of the earth -- Plate tectonics and volcanism: processes, products and landforms -- Geotectonics: processes, structures and landforms -- Exogenic geological systems. Weathering processes and products -- Slope processes and morphology -- Fluvial processes and landform-sediment assemblages -- Carbonate sedimentary environments and karst processes and landforms -- Coastal processes, landforms and sediments -- Glacial processes and landsystems -- Periglacial processes and landform-sediment assemblages -- Aeolian (wind) processes and landform-sediment assemblages -- Principles of ecology and biogeography. Principles of ecology and biogeography -- Soil-forming processes and products -- World ecosystems -- Global environmental change: past, present and future. The earth as a planet: geological evolution and change -- Atmospheric evolution and climate change -- Change in ocean circulation and the hydrosphere -- Biosphere evolution and change in the biosphere -- Environmental change: greenhouse and icehouse phases and climates prior to recent changes -- Global environment change in the future.

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Earth Environments provides a comprehensive introduction to Earth's four key interdependent systems: the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, focusing on their key components, interactions between them and environmental change. Tailored specifically to undergraduate students, the book is a one-step textbook for major topics in geosciences, environmental science, physical geography, natural hazards and ecology courses. Topics covered include: atmospheric systems; oceanography; endogenic and exogenic geological systems, biogeography and global environmental change. The impacts of climate and environmental change are integrated in a final summary chapter which draws together Earth's systems and their evolution and looks to the future of the planet.

Earth sciences, Textbooks.

Earth sciences.

Geotop.

Geowissenschaften.

Physische Geografie.

Huddart, David.

Stott, Tim.

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