Essentials of Geology - Softcover

Lutgens, Frederick K.; Tarbuck, Edward J.

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 002372840X ISBN 13: 9780023728402

Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div, 1994

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From the renowned Lutgens/Tarbuck/Tasa team, the Twelfth Edition ofEssentials of Geology continues to elevate its readability, art program, focus on basic principles and instructor flexibility. This revision incorporates what has historically made the text a best seller with a new active learning approach throughout each chapter, which offers students a structured learning path and provides a reliable, consistent framework for mastering the chapter concepts.

It also includes new additions to its learning path, mobile field trips, and visual program. This edition is supported by MasteringGeology™–used by over 1.5 million science students, the Mastering platform is the most effective and widely used online tutorial, homework, and assessment system for the sciences.

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Personalize learning with MasteringGeology: MasteringGeology provides students with engaging and interactive experiences that coach them through introductory physical geography with specific wrong-answer feedback, hints, and a wide variety of educationally effective content.
Teach with an active learning path that emphasizes learning objectives, tie questions back to objectives, ask students to analyze, synthesize, and critically think about core concepts, and break down chapter content.
Engage students with an art program that supports a structured learning path with its bold-magazine like design.

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From the Publisher:

This concise, nonquantitative text has been acclaimed through four previous editions. Essentials of Geology presents a timely, informative and easily accessible survey of basic topics in physical geology. Clearly written in straightforward nontechnical language, this text will be easily understood by students with little or no previous college-level science. Highly accurate and extremely current, this text concludes with two chapters treating historical geology and offers an excellent treatment of environmental issues throughout the text.

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Key Benefit: Clearly written in straightforward non-technical language, this book will be easily understood by readers with little or no previous science knowledge. Highly accurate and extremely current, this book concludes with two chapters treating historical geology and offers an excellent treatment of environmental issues throughout the book. Key Topics: This book provides clear, concise presentation emphasizing a non-quantitative approach with a minimum of jargon. Improved readability and clarity of presentation make this book the choice for "user-friendly" coverage. It includes a section of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry, providing readers with a solid framework for studying and learning. It features an improved, even more dazzling visual art program and offers an extremely up-to-date treatment of environmental issues that are of growing interest and concern to readers. With many new discussions and case studies the book treats such current topics as the 1993 Midwest Floods and the 1994 southern California earthquake. Market:

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