Parts:  I  -  II  -  III  -  IV  -  V  -  VI

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PART I: Our Island in Space
1.1 Wandering Planet
1.2 Pole Star
1.3 Doppler Effect
1.4 Red Shift
1.5 Solar System Formation
2.1 Mass of Earth Experiment
3.1 Wegener–Continental Drift
3.2 Bullard Fit of Continents
3.3 Magnetic Reversals
3.4 Wandering Poles or Drifting Continents?
3.5 Sea Floor Spreading
4.1 Basic Plate Boundaries
4.2 Formation of Ocean Crust
4.3 Transform Faulting
4.4 The Process of Subduction
4.5 Hot Spot Volcanoes
4.6 The Process of Rifting
 
PART II: Earth Materials
5.1 Mineral Growth
5.2 Crystallization
6.1 Formation of Igneous Rocks at Mid-Ocean Ridges
7.1 Formation of Cross Beds
7.2 Transgression and Regression
 
PART III: Tectonic Activity of a Dynamic Planet
10.1 Types of Faults
10.2 Seismic Wave Motion
10.3 How a Seismograph Works
11.1 Process of Folding
 
PART IV: History Before History
12.1 Geologic History
12.2 Types of Unconformity
 
PART V: Earth Resources
14.1 Oil Formation and Trapping
 
PART VI: Processes and Problems at Earth's Surface
17.1 Evolution of a Meandering Stream
18.1 Tides
22.1 Glacial Advance and Retreat
22.2 Milankovitch Cycles
23.1 Snowball Earth