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Glossary
1.1
Earth's Rotation
1.2
Drilling the Crust
2.1
Generating Earth's Magnetic Field
2.2
Does Plate Tectonics Occur on Other Planets?
2.3
Volatile Forces Shape the History of A Region
3.1
Asbestos Woes
3.2
Keeping Time with Quartz
3.3
Geologists Take a Closer Look at the Holy Crown of France
4.1
Yosemite National Park, California
4.2
Pelé and the Origin of Hawaii
5.1
Types of Sedimentary Rock
6.1
Shock Metamorphism
7.1
The Amazing Amethyst of the Paraná Basalt Province
8.1
What's Happening at the Atomic Scale During Faulting?
9.1
Living in the Mountains
10.1
What is a Year?
10.2
Walking Through Time
11.1
The Moon: A Source of Insight into the Hadean Earth?
11.2
The Cradle of Life
11.3
Clues in the Fossil Record
12.1
Oil-Well Fires
12.2
London Smog
12.3
Alloys
13.1
Energy and Work During Mass Movements
13.2
Scars of Mars
14.1
Whitewater Kayaking
14.2
Flood on Mars?
15.1
Can We Drink the Ocean?
15.2
Tides and the Length of the Day
16.1
Drinking Water
17.1
Atmospheres of Other Planets
17.2
Oscillations in Climate Triggered by El Niño
17.3
The Basin and Range Province
17.4
Navajo Sandstone
18.1
The Discovery of Pleistocene Mammals
18.2
A Speedy Glacier Teaches Geologists a Lesson
19.1
The Melting of Snowball Earth
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