Skinner, Porter, Botkin:

The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science, 2nd Edition

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Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: The Earth System

Chapter 2: Fellow Travelers in Space: Earth's Nearest Neighbors

Chapter 3: The Sun, Giver of life

Chapter 4: The Rock Cycle and Plate Tectonics

Chapter 5: Earthquakes and the Earth's Interior

Chapter 6: Earth Materials: Minerals and Rocks

Chapter 7: The Heat Within: Magma and Volcanoes

Chapter 8: The Earth's Evolving Crust

Chapter 9: Water on the Land

Chapter 10: The World of Snow and Ice

Chapter 11: The World Ocean

Chapter 12: Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere

Chapter 13: Winds, Weather, and Deserts

Chapter 14: The Earth's Changing Climates

Chapter 15: A Planetary Perspective on Life

Chapter 16: Geochemistry and Life

Chapter 17: Biological Evolution and the History of the Biosphere

Chapter 18: Resources of the Earth

Chapter 19: The Changing Face of the Land

Chapter 20: Global Change: A Planet Under Stress
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