num_pages: 672
description: This leading dictionary - now in its fourth edition - offers wide-ranging and authoritative coverage of the earth sciences and related topics in over 7500 clear and accessible entries. Coverage includes geology planetary science oceanography palaeontology mineralogy and volcanology aswell as climatology geochemistry and petrology.This new edition has been fully updated with 150 new entries added with expanded coverage of geology and planetary geology terms. Over 130 line drawings accompany the definitions.The Dictionary also provides recommended web links which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website. Appendices include a revised geological time scale an updated bibliography stratigraphic units lunar and Martian time scales wind-strength scales and SI units. Thisdictionary is essential for students of geography geology and earth sciences and for those in in related disciplines.
language: English
title: A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences
publisher: Oxford University Press