Organize
Learn
Connect
Instructors now have an easy way to collect students’ online quizzes with the Norton Gradebook without flooding their inboxes with e-mails.
Students can track their online quiz scores by setting up their own Student Gradebook.
Earth: Portrait of a Planet
Animations
PART I: Our Island in Space
- Ch 1. Zoomable Art: Forming the Planets and the Earth-Moon System
- Ch 2. Zoomable Art: The Earth, from Surface to Center
- Ch 3. Zoomable Art: Magnetic Reversals and Marine Magnetic Anomalies
- Ch 4. Basic Plate Boundaries
- Ch 4. Formation of Ocean Crust
- Ch 4. The Process of Subduction
- Ch 4. Transform Faulting
- Ch 4. What a Geologist Sees: Hot Spot Volcanoes
- Ch 4. The Process of Rifting
- Ch 4. Zoomable Art: The Theory of Plate Tectonics
- Ch 4. What A Geologist Sees: Plate Boundaries
Part II Earth Materials
- Ch 5. Mineral Growth
- Ch 6. What A Geologist Imagines: Volcanic Neck at Shiprock
- Ch 6. What a Geologist Sees: Antarctic Sill
- Ch 6. What A Geologist Sees: Pluton at Torres del Paines
- Ch 6. Zoomable Art: The Formation of Igneous Rocks
- Ch 6. Formation of Igneous Rocks at Mid-Ocean Ridges
- Ch 7. What A Geologist Sees: Contact Between Basement and Cover
- Ch 7. What a Geologist Sees: Formations in the Grand Canyon
- Ch 7. Formation of Cross Beds
- Ch 7. What a Geologist Sees: Formation of Cross Beds Cross Beds in Zion National Park
- Ch 7. Zoomable Art: The Formation of Sedimentary Rocks
- Ch 7. What A Geologist Sees: Channel Deposits
- Ch 7. Transgression and Regression
- Ch 8. Foliation in Metamorphic Rock (Preferred Orientation)
- Ch 8. What a Geologist Sees: Compositional Banding in Gneiss
- Ch 8. Zoomable Art: Environments of Metamorphism
Interlude C: Zoomable Art: Rock-Forming Environments and the Rock Cycle
Part III Tectonic Activity of a Dynamic Planet
- Ch 9. What a Geologist Imagines: Eruption of Vesuvius
- Ch 9. Growth of A Stratovolcano
- Ch 9. Zoomable Art: Volcano
- Ch 10. Types of Faults
- Ch 10. What A Geologist Sees: Offset Fence along San Andreas Fault
- Ch 10. Zoomable Art: Faulting in the Crust
- Ch 10. Seismic Wave Motion
- Ch 10. How a Seismograph Works
- Ch 11. Development of Strain (pure and simple shear)
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Offset Stream Channel Along San Andreas Fault
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Fault Offsetting
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Thrust Fault
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Horsts and Grabens
- Ch 11. What a Geologist Sees: Fold Trains in Ireland
- Ch 11. Process of Folding
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Flexural Fold
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Flow Fold
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Cleavage in an Anticline
- Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Shear Movement
- Ch 11. Development of A Collisional Mountain Belt
- Ch 11. Zoomable Art: The Collision of India with Asia
Part IV History before History
- Ch 12. Geologic History
- Ch 12. What A Geologist Sees: Unconformity
- Ch 12. Types of Unconformity
- Ch 12. Zoomable Art: The Record in Rocks: Reconstructing Geologic History
- Ch 12. What A Geologist Sees: Stratigraphic Column
Part V Earth Resources
- Ch 14. Oil Formation and Trapping
- Ch 14. Zoomable Art: Power from the Earth
- Ch 15. Zoomable Art: Forming and Processing Earth's Mineral Resources
Prelude F. Zoomable Art: The Hydrologic Cycle
Part VI Processes and Problems at the Earth’s Surface
- Ch 16. Cliff Retreat Along the Coast
- Ch 16. Zoomable Art: Mass Movement
- Ch 17. Evolution of a Meandering Stream
- Ch 17. Zoomable Art: River Systems
- Ch 17. What A Geologist Sees: Channeled Scablands
- Ch 18. Beach Drift
- Ch 18. Zoomable Art: Oceans and Coasts
- Ch 19. Zoomable Art: Caves and Karst Landscapes
- Ch 21. Zoomable Art: The Desert Realm
- Ch 22. Glacial Advance and Retreat
- Ch 22. Zoomable Art: Glaciers and Glacial Landforms
- Ch 22. Milankovitch Cycles
- Ch 23. Zoomable Art: The Earth System