Insights: A Laboratory Manual for Physical and Historical Geology

New Edition Now Available Insights: A Laboratory for Physical and Historical Geology is the only geology laboratory manual available combining physical and historical geology. This book is beneficial for geology majors and non-majors and fills the need for a broad, general approach to core curriculum geology topics in support of physical and historical geology. Students have two semesters worth of content in a single text.

This general survey of the basics of geology is a powerful tool for students.

Exercises, activities, full color photos, topographic maps and various other resources in this book will give students a good understanding of: * identifying rocks, minerals and fossils. * maps and mapping. * relative and absolute time. * the ordering of geologic events. * stratigraphy and correlation. * paleontology. * geological structures. NEW to the 5th edition: * Continental Drift * Discovery of Plate Tectonics * Mechanisms of Plate Tectonics Links to Separate Manuals: Insights: A Laboratory Manual for Historical Geology Insights: A Laboratory Manual for Physical Geology