Earth Environments: Past, Present and Future - Couverture rigide

Huddart, David; Stott, Tim A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0471485322 ISBN 13 : 9780471485322

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the major topics within undergraduate study programmes in geosciences, environmental science, physical geography, natural hazards and ecology.

This text introduces students to the Earth's four key interdependent systems: the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, focussing on their key components, interactions between them and environmental change.

Topics covered include: An earth systems model; components systems and processes: atmospheric systems; oceanography, endogenic geological systems and exogenic geological systems, biogeography and, aspects of the Earth's Record.

The impact of climate and environmental change is discussed in a final chapter which draws together Earth's systems and their evolution and looks ahead to future earth changes and environments and various time periods in the geological record.

Throughout the book geological case studies are used in addition to the modern processes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Professor David Huddart, Professor of Quaternary Geology and Faculty Director of Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Dr Tim Stott, Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471485322
• ISBN 13: 9780471485322
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 912
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible