The dynamic earth : [electronic resource] an introduction to physical geology / Brian J. Skinner, Stephen C. Porter.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [559]-560) and index.

Earth's materials -- Minerals -- Fire within: volcanoes and magmas -- Sediments and sedimentary rock -- New rocks from old: metamorphism and metamorphic rocks -- Geologic time -- Processes that shape the earth's surface -- Weathering and soils -- Mass-wasting -- Streams and drainage systems -- Groundwater -- Glaciers and glaciation -- Wind action and deserts -- Ocean margins -- Evolving earth -- Deformation of rock -- Earthquakes and the earth's interior -- Global tectonics -- Resources of minerals and energy -- Beyond planet Earth -- Our changing planet -- Appendix A: Units and their conversions -- Appendix B: Tables of the chemical elements and naturally occurring isotopes -- Appendix c: Tables of the properties of common minerals.