The book focuses on the appropriate core concepts of physical geology, with an emphasis on the unifying theory of plate tectonics and Earth’s dynamic nature. The many applicable examples, completely new photographs illustrating the material, and current topics covered throughout the text enhance students’ understanding and appreciation of physical geology and the role it plays in our everyday lives.

Since Cann and Renfrew's seminal paper in 1967 on the compositional analysis of obsidian in the Mediterranean, analytical techniques have improved, identification and characterization of sources have increased, and applications have broadened geographically and theoretically to address various socio-cultural activities and behaviours around the world. While many previous publications have focused on different aspects of obsidian characterization, this volume uniquely presents obsidian compositional studies from across the Americas that have relied on the instrumentation housed in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Monitoring Seismic and Acoustic Waves at Sea describes the non-tectonic related seismic signals, show examples of their waveforms, discuss the methodologies allowing to detect and study them, outline their impact and the remaining questions and establish a nomenclature for scientists working on these events, to ease future communications.

Minerals & gemstones of Southern Africa is not only the up-to-date publication of the minerals in the region, but also the first to showcase the gemstones of Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The book includes: an introduction to the geology of the region; detailed led descriptions of minerals, including their gemological properties, history, occurrence and uses; multiple full-color photographs of the species.

Carl A. Maida argues we are living in an era of transition that has been repeatedly called an age of acceleration, and in this time of crisis, diverse constituencies will need to coalesce and create place-based arenas for critical inquiry and reflection around biodiversity, energy, and sustainability concerns.

In the preface to the first edition of this book I noted the vast impact that isotope geochemistry has had on the earth sciences in the previous half century. That impact has only grown over the last decade. I stated that nearly every earth scientist needs some exposure to, if not fluency in, isotope geochemistry. That is even more true today

This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, to help develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying igneous minerals, interpreting and allocating appropriate names to unknown rocks presented to them.

Helicities, defined by the volume integral of the inner product of a vector field and its curl, are known to play essential roles in numerous geo/astrophysical and space plasma science phenomena, including stellar and planetary dynamos and evolution, mass condensation in star forming regions, accretion jet formation near compact massive objects, amplification of large-scale magnetic fields in the Universe, magnetic confinement in fusion and laboratory plasmas, etc.

From Bohr magneton at the atomic level to van Allen belts in the magnetosphere around the Earth, from an absolute atomic gravimeter to the gravity field curvature, and from Bayesian stochastic inversion to artificial intelligence (AI), this Dictionary contains more than 3,200 entries and presents a terminology-guided summary of the gravity and magnetic theory, measuring instruments, methods of data acquisition, processing, analysis, and interpretation for geophysical studies of the Earth and other planets.

With this completely revised and updated edition, Bierman/Hazlett/Trent’s GEOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: LIVING WITH A DYNAMIC PLANET, 8th EDITION, brings the relationship between humans and the Earth to life.