Geology & Oceanography

This product accompanies:
Keller,  Introduction to Environmental Geology, 4/E

• NEW - New chapter on Impacts of Extraterrestrial Objects (Chapter 10).

• NEW - New chapter on Waste as a Resource: Waste Management (Chapter 16).

• NEW - New or extensively revised discussion of:

  • Human population growth (Chapter 1)

  • Importance of isotopes to climate change (Chapter 3)

  • Slow earthquakes (Chapter 5) Page 136: Slow Earthquakes

  • Alaska earthquake of 2002 (Chapter 5) Page 347: Emerging shortages

  • Evaluation of flooding (Chapter 7)

  • Measuring coastal change (Chapter 9)

  • Emerging global water shortage (Chapter 9)

  • Cleaning Boston Harbor (Chapter 12) Page 371: A closer look, Boston Harbor

  • Minerals and sustainability (Chapter 13)

  • Coal-bed methane (Chapter 14)

  • Sequestration of carbon in the geologic environment (Chapter 18)

  • Avoiding an environmental crisis (Chapter 19).

• NEW - Revision of many figures–More clearly illustrate the topics under discussion, based on user feedback. Pages 239-46: Notations added to the photographs

• Five Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Geology–Chapter 1 introduces five concepts that unify the diverse topics the student will by studying: Human Population Growth, Sustainability, Earth as a System, Hazardous Earth Processes, and Scientific Knowledge and Values. To make these connections even more clear, at the end of each chapter, the chapter's topic is summarized in terms of these concepts (see "Revisiting Fundamental Concepts").  Page 7: 1.2, Fundamental Concepts

• Student-focused chapter structure–Includes consistent learning aids to maximize students' understanding of the material and review of major topics:

  • Learning objectives

  • Chapter summary

  • Detailed references at the end of each chapter

  • Key terms at the end of each chapter

  • Review questions

  • Critical-thinking questions that stimulate students to think about some of the important issues in the text and relate these to their lives and society.

• Foundations of geology–The text balances environmental considerations with a solid presentation of fundamental concepts and processes of physical geology.

• Case History and A Closer Look selected features–Added where appropriate to help students relate topics in the text to their world. Page 552: A Closer Look, El Nino (there are several ACLs in this chapter)

• Comprehensive appendices–Help students grasp some of the more applied aspects of environmental geology; useful for supplementing laboratory exercises and field exercises. Pages: A1 through D3. Appendices include:

  • Identification of rocks and minerals with accompanying tables and suggestions.

  • Strength of rocks.

  • Introduction to topographic and geologic maps with specific information concerning how to read topographic maps, construct topographic profiles, and understand geologic maps.

  • Introduction to Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and Global Positioning System instrumentation (GPS).

  • Discussion of how geologists determine and interpret geologic time.

  • A glossary of terms used in the field of environmental geology.

Media

• Instructor's Resource Center on CD-ROM, with PowerPoint Presentations and Animations–Includes three PowerPoint presentations for each chapter: (1) Lecture outline: "plug-and-play" lecture presentations based on the outline of the text to get you up and running as quickly as possible; (2) Art only: every figure and most of the photos in the text, in order, pre-loaded onto PowerPoint slides; (3) Animations: high quality animations of key geologic processes (see below for more details). Also included are all illustrations and a selection of photos for the text in 16-bit, low-compression JPEG files. All images are manually adjusted for color, brightness, and contrast

• PH Geoscience Animations–Created through a unique collaboration among five of Prentice Hall's leading geoscience authors, these animations may represent a most significant leap forward in lecture presentation. Available on the Instructor Resource Center on CD, each animation is mapped to the corresponding chapter in Introduction to Environmental Geology 3e. They are provided as both Flash files and, for your convenience, pre-loaded into PowerPoint slides. The list of animations includes:

  • Convergent Margins

  • Seafloor Spreading

  • Faults

  • Transform Faults

  • Foliation

  • Folding

  • P & S Waves

  • Stream Processes

  • Angular Unconformity and Nonconformity

  • Global Warming

  • Beach Drift

  • Seismograph Operations

  • Breakup of Pangea

  • Nebular Hypothesis

  • Oxbow Lake Formation

  • Crater Lake

  • Igneous Features

  • Hydrologic Cycle

  • Tidal Cycle

  • Glacial Processes/Ice Budget

  • Relative Dating

  • Tectonic Settings of Volcanic Activity

  • Glacial Processes/Plucking and Moraines

  • Wave Motion

  • Coastal Processes/Jetties, Groins, Breakwaters

  • Ocean Circulation

  • Accretion of Terranes

  • Global Atmospheric Circulation

  • Cyclones and Anticyclones

• Hazard City: Assignments in Applied Geology 2e–Included with every text, Hazard City gives instructors meaningful, easy-to-assign, and easy-to-grade assignments. Based on the idealized town of Hazard City, the assignments put students in the role of a practicing geologist–gathering and analyzing real data, evaluating risk, making assessments and recommendations. The second edition of this widely used CD contains a new module, Shoreline Property Assessment, and, in response to reviewer requests, there are now three sets of assessment questions for each activity.

• NEW - A new module (Shoreline Property Assessment).

o Students visit four related water-front building sites–some developed and some not–and analyze the risk each faces due to shoreline erosion processes.

• NEW - Three sets of assessment questions for each activity–Multiple, parallel sets of assessment questions allow the instructor to quickly and easily alter the assignments each semester. This helps preserve the integrity of the assignments over a longer period of time.

• Thoroughly class tested –All activities have been refined through testing in both the traditional and online classroom.

• Substantial, critical thinking assignments –Each activity takes 30-90 minutes. The activities require students to gather and analyze real data, participate in real issues, encounter uncertainty, and make decisions.

• Easy grading for instructors :

o All questions are multiple-choice, making them quick and easy to grade.

o Solutions are available only via the Instructor's Manual, helping preserve integrity for assignments in later semesters.

• Student flexibility for submitting answers:

o Using worksheets on the CD-ROM which students can print out, complete, and submit to the instructor;

o Visiting the Hazard City Website at http://www.hazcity.com, answering questions online, and printing a "certificate of completion" to hand in to instructor (the certificate indicates a raw score but does not provide solutions; these must be obtained from the instructor).

• Easy to assign –Each self-contained assignment encourages students to research, explore, learn on their own, and think.

o Ground Water Contamination: –Students use field and laboratory data to prepare a contour map of the water table, determine the direction of ground water flow and map a contaminated area.

o Volcanic Hazard Assessment: Researching volcanic hazards, collecting field information, and decision-making are all used to determine the potential impact of a volcanic eruption on different parts of Hazard City.

o Landslide Hazard Assessment: Students research the factors that determine landslide hazard at five construction sites and make recommendations for development.

o Earthquake Damage Assessment: Students research the effects of earthquakes on buildings, explore Hazard City, and determine the number of people needing emergency housing given an earthquake of specific intensity.

o Flood Insurance Rate Maps: Flood insurance premiums are estimated using a flood insurance rate map, insurance tables and site characteristics.

o Snowpack Monitoring: Students utilize climatic data to estimate variables that are key to flood control and water supply management.

o Coal Property Evaluation: The potential value of a mineral property is estimated by learning about mining and property evaluation then applying that knowledge in a resource calculation.

o Landfill Siting: Students use maps and geological data to determine if any of five proposed sites meet the requirements of the State Administrative Code for landfill siting.

o Shoreline Property Assessment: Students visit four related water-front building sites–some developed and some not–and analyze the risk each faces due to shoreline erosion processes.

• On Line Study Guide: www.prenhall.com/keller–Organized by chapter for easy integration into the course, the Companion Web Site offers numerous review exercises (from which students can get detailed, automatic feedback which they can then transmit to the instructor via e-mail) and continuously updated, annotated Internet links for further exploration. In addition, the Regional Updates section links students to USGS Fact Sheets applicable to their local area.

• New chapter on Impacts of Extraterrestrial Objects (Chapter 10).

• New chapter on Waste as a Resource: Waste Management (Chapter 16).

• New or extensively revised discussion of:

  • Human population growth (Chapter 1)

  • Importance of isotopes to climate change (Chapter 3)

  • Slow earthquakes (Chapter 5) Page 136: Slow Earthquakes

  • Alaska earthquake of 2002 (Chapter 5) Page 159: A Closer Look: The Alaska Earthquake

  • Evaluation of flooding (Chapter 7)

  • Measuring coastal change (Chapter 9)

  • Emerging global water shortage (Chapter 9) Page 347: Emerging Shortages

  • Cleaning Boston Harbor (Chapter 12) Page 371: A Closer Look: Boston Harbor

  • Minerals and sustainability (Chapter 13)

  • Coal-bed methane (Chapter 14)

  • Sequestration of carbon in the geologic environment (Chapter 18)

  • Avoiding an environmental crisis (Chapter 19).

• Revision of many figures—More clearly illustrate the topics under discussion, based on user feedback. Pages 239-46: Notations added to the photographs

Part I: Foundations of Environmental Geology

Part II: Earth Processes and Natural Hazards

Part III: Resources and Pollution

Part IV: Environmental Management, Global Perspectives, and Society

Environmental Geology  (Geology & Oceanography)
Environmental Geology  (Environmental Science)

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  Introduction to Environmental Geology, 4/E
  Keller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 752 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132251507 | ISBN-13: 9780132251501
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  For courses in Environmental Geology taken by introductory, non-science majors. Also appropriate for Physical Geology courses emphasizing an environmental perspective.

   

  As the human population increases, many decisions concerning our use of natural resources will determine our standard of living and the quality of our environment. This text helps non-science majors develop an understanding of how geology and humanity interface. Ed Keller—the author who first defined the environmental geology course—focuses on five fundamental concepts of environmental geology: Human Population Growth, Sustainability, Earth as a System, Hazardous Earth Processes, and Scientific Knowledge and Values. These concepts are introduced at the outset of the text, integrated throughout, and revisited at the end of each chapter.

   

  Included with every text, the Hazard City CD-ROM gives instructors meaningful, easy-to-assign, and easy-to-grade assignments based on the idealized town of Hazard City.

For the Environmental Science Discipline

Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Mann & Kump
©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 120 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0136044352 | ISBN-13: 9780136044352
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Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Mann & Kump
©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 120 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0136044352 | ISBN-13: 9780136044352
Suggested retail price: $26.60  Buy from myPearsonStore
Net price: $19.95  (What's this?)

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