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Books : Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology (8th Edition)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $79.20 Amazon.com's Price: $60.90 You Save: $18.30 (23%)Prices subject to change. Availability: unknown
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Binding: Spiral-boundDewey Decimal Number: 551 EAN: 9780136007715 ISBN: 0136007716 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: January 07, 2008 Publisher: Prentice Hall Studio: Prentice Hall Sales Rank: 1677 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Revised throughout for enhanced clarity and accuracy – and with a greater emphasis on the process of science – this user-friendly, best-selling laboratory manual examines the basic principles of geology and their applications to everyday life. Students are encouraged to view these principles in terms of natural resources, natural hazards, and human risks. This trusted resource features contributions from highly regarded geologists and geoscience educators, with an exceptional illustration program by Dennis Tasa. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - the title is kind of lyingI bought this book for my Geol 110 class at the University of Maryland in College Park. It's completely unlike every other lab manual I've used in college. It does not directly relate to the lab project, its more like a textbook or information packet to prepare you for the concepts you'll cover in lab. It has glossy pages instead of the usual paper so I'm discouraged from writing notes and lab findings in it. I feel like we probably could have gotten this information out of our normal textbook rather ... Read More Rating:  - Missing a pageThe book was in great condition, but for the fact that it's missing the page with cutout tools towards the back (an important page to be missing). Rating:  - excellent timingi ordered the book less than two weeks before school started. and it arrived with plenty of time for me to begin paging through it. it is in excellent condition, unused and very modestly priced. Rating: - Thank youI was concerned because this book was used & included a CD. It was in very good shape and the CD was unopened. Thank you! Rating:  - Terrible lab manualI inherited this lab manual when I started teaching physical geology this semester, and I told my students to return it to the bookstore. It contains factual errors (such as referring to hornblende and other non-metallic minerals as metallic, which they are not - metallic minerals are opaque in thin section), and the pedagogy is highly questionable. In the rock and mineral sections, it relies too heavily on photographs. Students already have a tendency to want to simply match minerals and rocks to pictures, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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