Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

SECTION ONE: 1. Foundations -- An Overview of our planetary environment -- 2. Rocks and Minerals -- SECTION TWO: Internal Processes: 3. Plate Tectonics -- 4. Earthquakes -- 5. Volcanoes -- 6. Streams and Flooding -- 7. Coastal Zones and Processes -- 8. Mass Movements -- 9. Geology and Climate: Glaciers, Deserts, and Global Climate Trends: Glaciers and Glacial Features, Wind and Its Geologic Impacts, Deserts and Desertification, Global Climate, Past and Present, the Greenhouse Effect and global warming, winds and currents, climate and commerce: El Nino -- 10. Water as a Resource: The Global Water Budget, Other Impacts of Urbanization on Groundwater Systems -- 11. Soil as a Resource, Soils and Human Activities -- 12. Mineral and Rock Resources, World Mineral Supply and Demand, Minerals for the Future: Some Options Considered, New Methods in Mineral Exploration, Marine Mineral Resources, Conservation of Mineral Resources -- 13. Energy Resources: Fossil Fuels, Oil and Natural Gas, Formation of Oil and Gas Deposits, Supply and Demand for Oil and Natural Gas, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Geopressurized Natural Gas and Other Alternate Gas Sources, Conservation, Oil Spills -- 14. Energy Resources -- Alternative Sources: Nuclear Power-Fission, Fission-Basic Principles, Concerns Related to Nuclear Reactor Safety, Radioactive Wastes, Solar Energy, Geothermal Power, Hydropower, Tidal Power, Wind Energy -- 15. Waste Disposal -- 16. Water Pollution -- 17. Air Pollution -- 18. Environmental Law -- 19. Land-Use Planning and Engineering Geology -- APPENDIX A: Geologic Time, Geologic Process Rates -- APPENDIX B: Introduction to Topographic and Geologic Maps and Satellite Imagery -- APPENDIX C: Mineral and Rock Identification -- APPENDIX D: Units of Measurement-Conversions 533.