Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology

About this book

Engaging, hands-on, and visual – the geology manual that helps your students think like a geologist. The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to help make your geology lab more active and engaging. This edition features new "What Do You Think" mini-cases that promote critical thinking, new and vastly-improved topographic maps, and updated, detailed reference figures in every chapter.
 

Contents

1. Setting the Stage for Learning about the Earth
2. The Way the Earth Works: Examining Plate Tectonics
3. Minerals
4. Minerals, Rocks and the Rock Cycle
5. Using Igneous Rocks to Interpret Earth History
6. Using Sedimentary Rocks to Interpret Earth History
7. Interpreting Metamorphic Rocks
8. Studying Earth’s Landforms
9. Working with Topographic Maps
10. Landscapes Formed by Streams
11. Glacial Landscapes
12. Groundwater as a Landscape Former and Resource
13. Processes and Landforms in Arid Environments
14. Shorelines Landscapes
15. Interpreting Geologic Structures on Block Diagrams, Geologic Maps, and Cross Sections
16. Earthquakes and Seismology
17. Interpreting Geologic History: What Happened, and When Did it Happen

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Biography

Allan Ludman is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Queens College, part of the City University of New York. He has devoted more than four decades to deciphering the evolution of the Northern Appalachians through field and laboratory studies in Maine and New Brunswick. He has taught introductory geology for 40 years and supervised the laboratories at Queens College for the past 35 years. Professor Ludman is also the director of GLOBE NY Metro, a K-12 science teacher development program in the New York area, created to promote hands-on, inquiry-based Earth Systems research for elementary and high-school level teachers and students.

Stephen Marshak is professor of geology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also the director of the School of Earth, Society, and Environment. He holds an A.B. from Cornell University, an M.S. from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Steve's research interests lie in structural geology and tectonics. This work has taken him into the field on a number of continents. Steve loves teaching and has won his college's and university's highest teaching awards. In addition to research papers and Earth Science, Steve has also authored Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Essentials of Geology, and has co-authored the Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology, Earth Structure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, and Basic Methods of Structural Geology.