Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the renowned Lutgens/Tarbuck/Tasa team, the Twelfth Edition of Essentials 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.

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It also includes new additions to its learning path, mobile field trips, and visual program. This edition is supported by MasteringGeology(tm)-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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This program will provide an interactive and engaging learning experience for your students. Here's how:

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.nbsp;
Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; My_Lab/Mastering does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and My_Lab/Mastering search for ISBN-10: 0321949803/ISBN-13: 9780321949806. That package includes ISBN-10: 0321947738/ISBN-13: 9780321947734 and ISBN-10: 0321966864/ISBN-13: 9780321966865.

My_Lab/Mastering is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 An Introduction to Geology
• 10 Groundwater
• 11 Glaciers and Glaciation
• 12 Deserts and Wind
• 13 Shorelines
• 14 Earthquakes and Earth's Interior
• 15 Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Theory Unfolds
• 16 Origin and Evolution of the Ocean Floor
• 17 Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building
• 18 Geologic Time
• 19 Earth's Evolution through Geologic Time
• 2 Matter and Minerals
• 20 Global Climate Change
• Appendix A Metric and English Units Compared
• Appendix B Topographic Maps
• Appendix C Landforms of the Conterminous United States
• Glossary
• Index
• 3 Igneous Rocks and Intrusive Activity
• 4 Volcanoes and Volcanic Hazards
• 5 Weathering and Soils
• 6 Sedimentary Rocks
• 7 Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
• 8 Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity
• 9 Running Water

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Fred Lutgens and Ed Tarbuck have been good friends and colleagues since 1970. Between them, they have more than 57 years of experience teaching geology to undergraduates, and both have been recognized with awards as excellent and inspiring professors. They share a special interest in introducing geology to beginning students and a belief in the value of field experiences for students of all levels. Lutgens and Tarbuck published their first college text, Earth Science, in 1976. That book, winner of the McGuffy Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is now going into its tenth edition. In 1983, as the first edition of Earth was being prepared, gifted geology illustrator Dennis Tasa joined the author team. Since then the three have collaborated on more than twenty projects. Not only do Tarbuck, Lutgens, and Tasa work well together creatively; they also enjoy spending time in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Tasa's New Mexico studio. Tarbuck enjoys downhill skiing in Colorado, fly fishing near his childhood home in Northern Minnesota, and spending time in the Cascades. Lutgens is an avid runner, and when he can make the time, truly enjoys hiking the canyons of the Colorado Plateau. Although Lutgens and Tarbuck think alike on many issues, they don't agree on everything. Lutgens is devoted to jazz and classical music, whereas Tarbuck prefers pop artists or a good country station.