Dictionary of geological terms /

From Aa toZweikanter, this popular dictionary has now been revised and updated. This edition includes over 1,000 new terms plus: -accurate definitions without technical jargon - many word origins commonly used abbreviations -a geologic time and life chart. The definitions in this book are drawn larg...

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Corporate Author: American Geological Institute
Other Authors: Bates, Robert Latimer, 1912-, Jackson, Julia A., 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984.
Edition:3rd ed., Anchor Books ed.
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Summary:From Aa toZweikanter, this popular dictionary has now been revised and updated. This edition includes over 1,000 new terms plus: -accurate definitions without technical jargon - many word origins commonly used abbreviations -a geologic time and life chart. The definitions in this book are drawn largely from the autoritative 36,000-term Glossary Of Geology, to which nearly 150 specialists from all fields of the geosciences contributed. Both the Glossary and this Dictionary were prepared as a service of the American Geological Institute, a federation of geoscience societies united to provide information to the science community and the public.
Physical Description:571 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:0385181000 :
9780385181006
0385181019 (pbk.) :
9780385181013 (pbk.)