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Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada. It is adapted from "Physical Geology" written by Steven Earle for the BCcampus Open Textbook Program.

Collection Resources

1: Introduction to Geology

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2: The Origin of Earth and the Solar System

3: Earth’s Interior

4: Plate Tectonics

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5: Minerals

6: The Rock Cycle

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7: Igneous Rocks

8: Weathering, Sediment, and Soil

9: Sedimentary Rocks

10: Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks

11: Volcanism

12: Earthquakes

13: Geological Structures and Mountain Building

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14: Streams and Floods

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15: Mass Wasting

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16: Earth-System Change

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17: Glaciation

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18: Geological Resources

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19: Measuring Geological Time

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