BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 EVOLUTION OF THE GEOLOGIC SCIENCES -- THE DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES -- ORIGINS IN PREHISTORIC TIMES -- ANTIQUITY -- KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE -- KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH HISTORY -- FOSSILS -- KNOWLEDGE OF LANDFORMS AND OF LAND-SEA RELATIONS -- THE 16TH-18TH CENTURIES -- ORE DEPOSITS AND MINERALOGY -- PALEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY -- EARTH HISTORY ACCORDING TO WERNER AND JAMES HUTTON -- CATASTROPHISM AND UNIFORMITARIANISM -- THE 19TH CENTURY -- CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF MINERALS AND ROCKS -- WILLIAM SMITH AND FAUNAL SUCCESSION -- CHARLES LYELL AND UNIFORMITARIANISM -- LOUIS AGASSIZ AND THE ICE AGE -- ERRATICS -- GEOLOGIC TIME AND THE AGE OF EARTH -- CONCEPTS OF LANDFORM EVOLUTION -- GRAVITY, ISOSTASY, AND EARTH'S FIGURE -- THE 20TH CENTURY -- ISOSTASY -- RADIOMETRIC DATING -- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ROCKS -- CRYSTALLOGRAPHY -- THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ROCKS AND MINERALS -- MICROPALEONTOLOGY -- SEISMOLOGY AND THE STRUCTURE OF EARTH -- THE THEORY OF PLATE TECTONICS -- SEISMOLOGY -- REMANENT MAGNETISM -- CHAPTER 2 GEOLOGY -- STUDY OF EARTH'S COMPOSITION -- MINERALOGY -- PETROLOGY -- ECONOMIC GEOLOGY -- GEOCHEMISTRY -- STUDY OF EARTH'S STRUCTURE -- GEODESY -- GEOPHYSICS -- STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY -- TECTONICS -- VOLCANOLOGY -- STUDY OF EARTH'S SURFACE FEATURES AND PROCESSES -- GEOMORPHOLOGY -- GLACIAL GEOLOGY -- GIS -- EARTH HISTORY -- HISTORICAL GEOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY -- PALEONTOLOGY -- GEOLOGIC TIME -- ASTROGEOLOGY -- PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS -- EXPLORATION FOR ENERGY AND MINERAL SOURCES -- EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION AND CONTROL -- OTHER AREAS OF APPLICATION -- CHAPTER 3 EARTH EXPLORATION -- PRIMARY OBJECTIVES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS -- METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION -- REMOTE SENSING -- LANDSAT -- MAGNETIC METHODS -- MAGNETOMETER -- GRAVITY METHODS.

SEISMIC REFRACTION METHODS -- SEISMIC WAVE -- SEISMIC REFLECTION METHODS -- ELECTRICAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS -- RADIOACTIVE METHODS -- GEOTHERMAL METHODS -- GEOCHEMICAL METHODS -- EXCAVATION, BORING, AND SAMPLING -- DEEP EARTH -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4 NOTABLE EARTH SCIENTISTS -- (JEAN) LOUIS (RODOLPHE) AGASSIZ -- EARLY LIFE -- ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES -- AGASSIZ AND DARWIN -- GEORGIUS AGRICOLA -- LIFE -- CHIEF WORKS -- JÖNS JACOB BERZELIUS -- EDUCATION AND CAREER -- ELECTROCHEMICAL DUALISM -- STOICHIOMETRY -- ATOMISM AND NOMENCLATURE -- MINERALOGY -- ORGANIC CHEMISTRY -- A MAN OF INFLUENCE -- NORMAN L. BOWEN -- JAMES DWIGHT DANA -- CLARENCE EDWARD DUTTON -- JAMES HALL -- RENÉ-JUST HAÜY -- ROBERT HOOKE -- JAMES HUTTON -- SIR CHARLES LYELL -- LIFE -- CAREER -- NEW APPROACH TO GEOLOGY -- SCIENTIFIC EMINENCE -- ASSESSMENT -- JOHN MILNE -- JOHN PLAYFAIR -- JOHN WESLEY POWELL -- WILLIAM SMITH -- NICOLAUS STENO -- STRABO -- WILLIAM THOMSON, BARON KELVIN -- EARLY LIFE -- LATER LIFE -- ALFRED LOTHAR WEGENER -- ABRAHAM GOTTLOB WERNER -- GLOGSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GEOLOGY -- EARTH STRUCTURE AND SURFACE FEATURES -- EARTH HISTORYAND ASTROGEOLOGY -- PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF GEOLOGY -- EARTH SCIENCES -- EARTH EXPLORATION -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.