[Ebook PDF] Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 12th Edition

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Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 12th Edition

ISBN-10: 0134074254

ISBN-13: 9780134074252

Authors:  Edward J. Tarbuck (Author), Frederick K. Lutgens (Author), Dennis G. Tasa (Author)

For all introductory physical geology courses.

Learning Objective-driven textbook, using augmented reality to bring geology to life

With its strong readability and engaging, instructive illustrations, this trusted bestseller returns with a hybrid and streamlined focus on core principles. Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology maintains a learning objective-driven approach throughout each chapter: The text provides readers with a structured learning path, tied to learning objectives with opportunities for readers to demonstrate their understanding at the end of each section. The authors’ emphasis on currency and relevance includes the latest thinking in the field, particularly in the dynamic area of plate tectonics.

The 12th Edition, Pearson Science’s first augmented reality, hybrid textbook, uses the Bounce Pages image recognition app (FREE on both iOS and Android stores) to connect readers’ digital devices to the print textbook, enhancing their reading and learning experience. Tarbuck/Lutgens’s innovative Smart Figures feature has been expanded, adding new digital content via Project Condor, Mobile Field Trips by Michael Collier, Animated Figures, and additional tutorial videos from Callan Bentley.

PREFACE
Earth is a very small part of a vast universe, but it is our home. It provides the resources that support our modern society and the ingredients necessary to maintain life. Knowledge of our physical environment is critical to our well-being and vital to our survival. A basic geology course can help a person gain such an understanding, and can also take advantage of the interest and curiosity many of us have about our planet—its landscapes and the processes that create and alter our physical environment.
This 12th edition of Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, like its predecessors, is a college-level text that is intended to be a meaningful, nontechnical survey for students taking their first course in geology. In addition to being informative and up-to-date, a major goal of Earth is to meet the need for a readable and user-friendly text, a book that is a highly usable tool for students learning the basic principles and
concepts of geology.
Although many topical issues are examined in the 12th edition of Earth, it should be emphasized that the main focus of this new edition remains the same as the focus of earlier editions: to promote student understanding of basic principles. As much as possible, we have attempted to provide the reader with a sense of the observational techniques and reasoning processes that constitute the science of geology.
New and Important Features
The 12th edition represents an extensive and thorough revision of Earth that integrates improved textbook resources with new online features to enhance the learning experience,
• Significant updating and revision of content. A basic function of a college science textbook is to present material in a clear, understandable way that is accurate, engaging, and up-to-date. In the long history of this textbook, our numberone goal has always been to keep Earth current, relevant, and highly readable for beginning students. To that end, every part of this text has been examined carefully. Many discussions, case studies, examples, and illustrations have been updated and revised.
• Smart Figures that make Earth much more than a traditional textbook. Through its many editions, an important strength of Earth has always been clear, logically organized, and well-illustrated explanations. Now, complementing and reinforcing this strength are a series of Smart Figures. Simply by scanning a Smart Figure with a mobile device and Pearson’s Bounce Pages Augmented Reality app (FREE and available for iOS and Android), students can link to hundreds of unique and innovative digital learning opportunities that will increase their insight and understanding of important ideas and concepts. We have also placed short URLs in the caption for every Smart Figure. This will ensure that students who may not have a smart phone, will have the ability to access these videos easily. Smart Figures are truly art that teaches! This 12th edition of Earth has more than 200 Smart Figures of five different types:
1. Smart Figure Tutorials. Each of these 2- to 4-minute tutorials, prepared and narrated by Professor Callan Bentley, is a mini-lesson that examines and explains the concepts illustrated by the figure.
2. Smart Figure Mobile Field Trips. Scattered throughout this new edition are 24 video field trips that explore classic geologic sites from Iceland to Hawaii. On each trip you will accompany geologist-pilot-photographer Michael Collier in the air and on the ground to see and learn about landscapes that relate to discussions in the chapter.
3. Smart Figure Condor Videos. The 10 Condor videos take you to sites in the American West. By coupling aerial footage acquired by a quadcopter aircraft with ground level views, effective narratives, and helpful animations, these videos will engage you in real-life case studies.
4. Smart Figure Animations. Scanning the many figures with this designation brings art to life. These animations and accompanying narrations illustrate and explain many difficult-to-visualize topics and ideas more effectively than static art alone.
5. Smart Figure Videos. Rather than providing a single image to illustrate an idea, these figures include short video clips that help illustrate such diverse subjects as mineral properties and the structure of ice sheets.