| Description |
1 online resource (654 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford paperback reference |
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Oxford paperback reference.
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| Contents |
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; CONTRIBUTORS AND ADVISERS; A DICTIONARY OF EARTH SCIENCES: A-Z; APPENDICES; A. Stratigraphic Units as defined in the North American Stratigraphic Code, 1983; B. Time Scales; C. Wind Strength; D. SI Units, Conversions, and Multiples; E. List of Useful Websites (web-linked); BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
Covers topics such as climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology. Includes entries on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, wind strength scales, material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units, geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales |
| Analysis |
Handbooks |
| Notes |
Previous ed. published as: The concise Oxford dictionary of earth sciences. 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-654) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Earth sciences -- Dictionaries.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allaby, Michael.
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| ISBN |
0191726613 (electronic book) |
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1615837582 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191726613 (electronic book) |
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9781615837588 (electronic bk.) |
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(paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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