Excellent book packed full of useful information. I'm glad I purchased it for my class!
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This text is a radical departure from the standard college text. The "guiding question" approach and the image-intensive layout allows students to explore the content, rather than be led in lock-step with the author. This text is best used as a supportive student resource, rather than a required reading text. Whereas, some college instructors see this text as "dumbed-down", I would argue that it is a great introductory text...
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If only we could learn geology though genuine field experiences with a master scientist, geologist and communicator... This is as close as it gets in a textbook. Based on illustrations of real field locations and enticing geological investigations, this book takes the excitement of field geologists into real-world inquiry of the workings of planet Earth. Since John S. Shelton's classic, "Geology Illustrated," published...
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