This book introduces young readers to the Earth's layers, from the rocky crust to the dense inner core. Plate tectonics and early continents are among the topics discussed. Color illustrations and photographs, a glossary, a bibliography, a list of useful websites, and hands-on activities and projects are also provided.

Ever wonder how fault lines, caves, and volcanoes were formed and how people came to live on or next to them? [This book] uses cutaway illustrations to examine some of the world's most interesting natural underground structures created by Earth's forces and processes.--

"Using animated models, 'Genesis' simulates the earth's history of constant change. These extensive models dramatize the theory of plate tectonics and demonstrate the forces which created new continents and reshaped oceans. Then this kaleidoscopic film travels around the world to capture the earth in action. Actual footage of a volcanic eruption in Hawaii and the ocean floor spreading beneath Iceland make the earth's evolution a vivid reality."--Accompanying...

In this 3 hour series, one can witness in seconds what took the Earth eons to create: bumper-car continents; ice ages pulsing out of the poles and back; the Himalayas surging upwards; sand dunes swallowing, then uncovering African villages, and more!

Evidence for Early Proterozoic north-verging folding and thrusting in the continental foreland of the Penokean orogen is present in two widely separated areas in northern Michigan. In the eastern part of the exposed orogen, asymmetric to over-turned folds in the Early Proterozoic Michigamme Formation suggest an initial (D₁) phase of possibly north verging thin-skinned deformation. A second phase (D₂ ) is characterized by a more thick skinned deformation...

"Lavishly illustrated in color, this textbook takes an applied approach to introduce undergraduate students to the basic principles of structural geology. The book provides unique links to industry applications in the upper crust, including petroleum and groundwater geology, which highlight the importance of structural geology in exploration and exploitation of petroleum and water resources. Topics range from faults and fractures forming near the...