Dickey, John S.

On the rocks : earth science for everyone / John S. Dickey. - New York : Wiley, 1996. - xix, 252 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-243) and index.

Gathering stardust - Atoms, crystals, and rocks - Hot enough to melt - From mud to metamorphism - Older than the hills - Folding, fauting, and floating - On tremblig ground in an ambivalente field - How continents move - Ores, energy, radwast, and water - Diamonds - Neighbors near the sun - Worls more distant and strange

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Earth sciences

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