Dictionary of geological terms
Robert L. Bates (Editor), Julia A. Jackson (Editor), American Geological Institute
From Aa toZweikanter, this popular dictionary has now been revised and updated. This edition includes over 1,000 new terms plus: -accurate definitions without technical jargon - many word origins commonly used abbreviations -a geologic time and life chart. The definitions in this book are drawn largely from the autoritative 36,000-term Glossary Of Geology, to which nearly 150 specialists from all fields of the geosciences contributed. Both the Glossary and this Dictionary were prepared as a service of the American Geological Institute, a federation of geoscience societies united to provide information to the science community and the public
Print Book, English, 1984
3rd ed., Anchor books ed
Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1984