Teach Yourself Geology - David A Rothery

Teach Yourself Geology: A Complete Introduction by David A Rothery covers the essentials of most school and university courses on Geology. Topics covered include the Earth's structure, earthquakes, plate tectonics, volcanoes, igneous intrusions, metamorphism, weathering, erosion, deposition, deformation, physical resources, past life and fossils, the history of the Earth, Solar System geology, and geological fieldwork. There are useful appendices of minerals, rock names and geological time. David Rothery is Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University.