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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Earth Science Second Edition McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be repro-duced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141798-2 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-141045-7 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. premiums and sales, promotions, or for use inicorporate training programs. For TERMS OF USE Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is pile,tdisassemble, reverse engineer, reproduce, modify, create derivative works work or any part of it without McGraw-Hill’s prior consent. You may use the is strictly prohibited. Yoursright to use the work may be terminated if you fail THE WORK IS PROVIDED “AS IS”. McGRAW-HILL AND ITS LICEN- OBTAINED FROM USING THE WORK, INCLUDING ANY INFORMA- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED that the functions contained in the work will meet your requirements or that its licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omis- McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed sors lbet liablet for any indirect, t incidental, special,l punitive,vconsequential or DOI: 10.1036/0071417982 For more information about this title, click here. Contents Preface ................................................................................................................. v Staff ...................................................................................................................... vi How to Use the Dictionary ........................................................................... vii Fields and Their Scope .................................................................................. ix Pronunciation Key ............................................................................................ x A-ZTerms .................................................................................................... 1-448 Appendix .................................................................................................. 449-468 Equivalents of commonly used units for the U.S. Customary System and the metric system .................................... 451 Conversion factors for the U.S. Customary System, metric system, and International System .............................. 452-455 Geologic column and scale of time .................................................... 456 Some historical volcanic eruptions ..................................................... 457 Principal regions of a standard earth model ..................................... 458 Physical properties of some common rocks ...................................... 458 Approximate concentration of ore elements in earth’s crust and in ores ............................................................................... 459 Soil orders .............................................................................................. 459 Elemental composition of earth’s crust based on igneous and sedimentary rock ........................................................ 460 World’s estimated water supply .......................................................... 460 Cloud classification based on air motion and associated physical characteristics ................................................. 461 Simplified classification of major igneous rocks on the basis of composition and texture ............................................ 462 Average chemical composition of igneous rocks (totals reduced to 100%) .................................................................. 463 Dimensions of some major lakes ........................................................ 464 Characteristics of some of the world’s major rivers ......................... 465 The 100 highest mountain peaks ........................................................ 466 Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. This page intentionally left blank. ... - tailieumienphi.vn
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