Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 576 pages
- Published by: Brooks Cole
- Edition: 1st Edition December 22, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0534384757
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0534384753
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Book Dimensions:
11 x 8.8 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 3.8 pounds
Product Description
Covering all traditional topics in comfortable depth, this text presents a process-oriented approach to understanding how Earth systems work. Emphasis is placed upon understanding fundamental principles and concepts over memorizing terminology. The authors' vision of Earth as a "planet in process" reinforces throughout the text the dynamic properties of Earth's systems.
About The Author
Brendan Murphy is Professor of
geology at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, where he has taught since 1982. An active and distinguished researcher whose interests lie in the processes involved in mountain building, he received the President's Research Award in 1993 from his university and the Distinguished Service Award of the Atlantic Geoscience Society in 1995. He received his Ph.D. from
McGill University in 1982, and hails from Birr, Ireland.
Damian Nance is Chair of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, where he has taught since 1980. He is a distinguished researcher and writer, having done much research on the early evolution of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1991 he received his university's Outstanding Teaching Award, and has been twice nominated for its Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Cambridge, and hails from Cornwall, England. Each has written over 75 scientific papers, thirty of which Brendan Murphy and Damian Nance co-authored.
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