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1. Earth
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2. Iceland: Second Edition (Classic Geology in Europe)
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3. Physical Geology
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4. Eruptions that Shook the World
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5. Earth's Climate
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6. An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structure
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7. Volcanoes: What's Hot and What's Not on Earth and in Our Solar System
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8. Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
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9. Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape
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10. Cascadia's Fault: The Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America
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11. Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans (Antarctic Research Series)
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12. Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
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13. Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault
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14. Volcanoes in the Sea: The Geology of Hawaii (Second Edition)
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15. Principles of Environmental Science
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16. Physical Geology 13th Revised edition by Plummer, Charles (Carlos) C., Carlson, Diane H., McGeary, Da (2009) Paperback
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So it sounds like you are looking for some thing at the pretty basic level?
For David Attenborough books, try something coffee-table-y like the Smithsonian Earth guide. It's about much more than geo, but it's got everything you listed above and lots of pretty pictures and interesting things.
For something more academic, but still introductory, try Understanding Earth. Easy to read yet descriptive. If you don't want to pay $120, try going back a couple of editions.
One more step up might be Planet Earth: Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment which has a few less pretty pictures and a few more maths (optional). Even though this book is supposedly "below" my educational level I still love it. I also wish I'd read it back when I was first starting down the scientific path - it really covers the basics of just about everything you'd every need to know.
>Change my mind.
I have no interest in what you beleive.
However some readers may be interested in a couple of obvious points that spring to mind.
First up the source Ruddiman has a ten year more recent eddition
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earths-Climate-Future-William-Ruddiman/dp/131915400X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FNAJRPPHR87XAHQZCF0X
This will include a lot of work by the likes of Tripati et al 2009 that had significant refinements to Miocene CO2 and temperatures.
Secondly the sources cited predate Royer 2004 (and his more recent works including one about a year ago) that look at Phanerozoic coupling of CO2 and temperature. Its sort of a review piece in rather than new research but it shows the over all trend.
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>Weathering fluxes are modified over time as changes occur in global temperature, continental size, position and relief, and land plant colonization. This includes incorporating solar radiation, due to the slow stellar evolution of the sun, and the CO2 greenhouse effect in general circulation model (GCM) calculations of global mean surface temperature and river runoff. Volcanic degassing is guided by the abundance of volcanics, seafloor spreading rates, and the carbonate content of subducting oceanic crust.
This is the changing luminosity of our star over time
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It has increased at about 30%, this increase is non linear so the past couple of hundred million years are given at a heuristic of 1% per 100 million years. That is to say a graph of CO2 over times scales of billions of years, without mapping it against solar output is nonsense.
Another quick aside it mentions Ordovician climate but with sources from about 2007, Young 2010 has significantly updated our understanding of the evolution of CO2 and temperature during this period.
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In short this appears to be very out of date, missing vital context and a bit of a mish mash of mixed papers trying to push a conclusion.
As always you mileage may vary and all corrections offered in good faith welcomed.
I really like Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms or any book by Richard Fortey, really if paleontology and the biological history of the earth is interesting to you.
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded is also great, especially if you like volcanoes. And sort of similarly is Eruptions that Shook the World.
I also second The Seashell on the Mountaintop that /u/ap0s suggested. It's very good!
A couple of things...
The second is tomographic inversion of a huge number of earthquake arrival datasets to essentially CAT-scan the earth. But strictly speaking that isn't necessary.
The first is this (briefly). There are two fundamental body waves - P waves and S waves. There are also surface waves (travel only along interfaces, e.g. surface of Earth). Lets ignore those for now.
So... wave velocity is related to material and density. Waves follow paths through the earth, and on hitting an interface, can transform. So a P wave goes to the core-mantle boundary and splits into a bunch of waves - a P reflected, an S reflected, a P transmitted, and no S transmitted (because the outer core is liquid). An S wave does the same. There is a complex nomenclature for wave arrivals that identifies what phase arrived (SKS, SCS, PKP, etc. etc. etc.). Since the P and S wave velocities are different, and since there are so many phases that follow different paths, we end up being able to solve fairly simply for some material properties on a generalized basis. The answer is sort-of non unique. Certain phases do and do not show up certain places, which allows us to pin the size of the inner core, for example (because as Lehman demonstrated, there is a shadow zone...) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_zone )
Next, we have totally different and complementary ways of knowing the gross structure (e.g. spin of Earth moments) which also constrain the density structure. Simultaneously solving different systems gives us a pretty good model of the structure (e.g. the PREM - preliminary reference earth model)...
If we don't go for a generalized model, but instead solve specific paths in 3d (rather than the generalized spherically symmetric case) then we are in the second case - tomography - and we can image structure on the core-mantle boundary and large scale density anomalies in the mantle. Forex, one interesting thing is that some hotspots (non-plate-boundary mafic volcanoes like the Hawaii-Emporer chain) source at the core mantle boundary, others do not...
Finally, there is a third case that doesn't apply to the core, but is damned interesting. If you look at an S wave coming up from a distant source, and so coming up at you pretty much vertically, the wave may split into two components (shear wave splitting) that partition because the upper mantle is anisotropic (has faster velocity in one direction due to crystal alignment). So we can indirectly examine what we infer to be flow fields in the mantle (plastic flow, not liquid...).
A good but kind of advanced book on this stuff is:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Seismology-Earthquakes-Earth-Structure/dp/0865420785/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319660379&sr=1-1
(no affiliation with me... I just dig the book).
Yes I have it actually. Very good visual guide. DK books are superb, there are a couple of others of theirs I have
http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-History-Atlas/dp/1405302674/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324647974&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth/dp/0789496437/ref=pd_sim_b_6
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Definitive-Guide-Our-Species/dp/140530233X/ref=pd_sim_b_4
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soldier-Reg-Grant/dp/1405344202/ref=pd_sim_b_21
All good
this is an overview of everything related to geology and earth science.. its and awesome book and goes into enough detail about everything and has tons of awesome pictures
http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Michael-Allaby/dp/0789496437
get her a college level physical geology book this one for the price shouldn't be bad. Have her focus on concepts like the principal of original horizontality, lateral continuity, superposition and then some plate tectonics. Help her out with any concepts she can't understand.
I bought this book after a vacation to Iceland and found it to be very informative. It's well written and has good maps. I think it could be a good starting point for you.
One book I found particularly interesting was: Eruptions that shook the world by Oppenheimer https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eruptions-Shook-World-Clive-Oppenheimer/dp/0521641128
I am sure you can get it cheaper elsewhere, but it gives a good background to eruptions.
A lot of the info in the album was stuff that I took note of while at the actual location; there was usually a sign that gave at least some information in English. If I wanted to know more I looked it up later. I did read these ahead of time though:
In my experience, people underestimate children and overestimate the undergrad experience. My first two geology courses as an undergrad involved a lot of material I had already learned by the time I was 8 or 9. I'd strongly recommend getting her some introductory textbooks - example 1, example 2 - that have a lot of pictures and easy language.
Volcanoes: What's Hot and What's Not on Earth and in Our Solar System looks like a good one, though I haven't read it yet.
[This book] (http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Michael-Allaby/dp/0789496437) is great for a general concept of a lot of things you'd learn in your BSc geology. It's not just geology, it also has info about the oceans and the atmosphere which you'd also encounter in your studies.
Nick Zentner recommends Full Rip 9.0 in his lecture about PNW tsunamis. The subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate is intimately connected to the Cascades, so you might find that interesting.
I really like this book. Good run down of the geologic history of the lower mainland.
Blasted through Wool by Hugh Howey this weekend. I liked it, not sure if the there's a sequel? The graphic novel might be cool.
I'm starting Cascadia's Fault: The Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America which is going to partner very well with my process on the audio book of A Short History of Nearly Everything because I'm at the part about Yellowstone being ready to explode soon (in the cosmic timeline sense). I also have checked out an audio book of Jim Harrison's Brown Dog which is very entertaining so far.
https://www.amazon.com/Volcanoes-Antarctic-Southern-Oceans-Research/dp/0875901727
Buy it if you want. I haven't seen it myself, but are you really suggesting a scientist published a theory that NASA just cited without any evidence? The notion is just absurd.
I read a book about the 1980 eruption, and one of the parts that really stuck with me was Mr. Truman. He was made into a local hero for being stubborn and refusing to leave during evacuations because it was his home and he'd lived with the volcano for decades.
However, I think it was a reporter that went to interview him and said he appeared to be scared. I guess being thrust into a role as a folk hero made him stay despite starting to think otherwise...
EDIT: Here is the book for anyone interested.
www.amazon.com/Eruption-Untold-Story-Mount-Helens/dp/0393353583
I spent many hours reading this book when I lived there.
Hey there, do you have test bank for this one
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Environmental-Science-William-Cunningham/dp/0078036070
Physical Geology 13th Revised edition by Plummer, Charles (Carlos) C., Carlson, Diane H., McGeary, Da (2009) Paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/0070167079/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_E7EWCb403KKXX
This was insightful back in the day https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFUAOXG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_tWb0Db309Z2W4
I believe there is a way to look at the volcanic ash and basically know everything there is to know about any particular eruption. Each volcano has a unique "fingerprint" in its ash deposits, and each eruption leaves its own signature in that ash.
It's likely that the researchers took samples from the ash deposit of 1707, which is buried in sediment (probably), and figured out how much pressure it must have taken to make that kind of ash, and how high it was sent up in the atmosphere, and how long it stayed in the air, etc etc.
Read "Eruptions that Shook the World" if you want to have your mind blown harder than Mt St. Helens.
By the way, I'm no geologist or volcanologist. I just read the book and kind of have an understanding of it.
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