Unit One 1
Lesson One:The Scope of Geology 1
Lesson Two:Physical Properties of Minerals 9
Lesson Three:Standardization of Descriptions for Field Identification of Rock Types 16
Lesson Four:Kingdom Protista 23
Lesson Five:Structural Field Work 30
Unit Two 37
Lesson Six:Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rock 37
Lesson Seven:Geochemistry of Epigenesis 43
Lesson Eight:Geomathematics 49
Lesson Nine:Remote Sensing:From Image to Number 56
Lesson Ten:Jupiter's Icy Moon Could Support Life 62
Unit Three 68
Lesson Eleven:Economic Geology 68
Lesson Twelve:Relationship of some Ore Deposits to Magmas 77
Lesson Thirteen:Hydrothermal Deposits 85
Lesson Fourteen:Mechanical Accumulations 93
Lesson Fifteen:The Strata-bound Deposits 100
Unit Four 109
Lesson Sixteen:Nature of Geological Maps 109
Lesson Seventeen:Geologic Time 114
Lesson Eighteen:Marginal Zones of Orogenic Belts 119
Lesson Nineteen:Plate Tectonics 123
Lesson Twenty:Sedimentary Environments——Transitional Environments 128
Lesson Twenty-one:Origin of Petroleum 134
Lesson Twenty-two:Geophysics:Relationship with Geology 141
Lesson Twenty-three:Ground-Water Systems 146
Lesson Twenty-four:Co-operation of Geologists with Engineers 150
Lesson Twenty-five:Environmental Geology 155
Unit Five 161
Final Examination 161
Part One 161
Part Two 169
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises 177
Appendix Ⅱ Vocabulary 180
Appendix Ⅲ References 232