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The Field Guide to Geology
by David Lambert
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Checkmark Books (1997-12)
ISBN: 0816038236
EAN: 9780816038237
Dewy Decimal #: 550
Paperback: 256 pages
Edition: Revised
SKU: M9973
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Excellent basic reference to the ingredients and processes that forged our planet.
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Customer Reviews
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An excellent science or study text for young adults, especially recommended for high school library collections.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Written by award-winning science author David Lambert and The Diagram Group, The Field Guide to Geology is an overview of the geologic history of the Earth. Accessible to middle and high school students as well as lay readers alike, The Field Guide to Geology is now updated with two new chapters: one on new technologies used to measure behavior of the Earth's complex systems in real time, and one on notable scientists whose research advanced the field of geology. The Field Guide to Geology includes more than 750 two-color maps, charts, and illustrations, and covers everything from plate tectonics to the distinctions between types of rock and stone to how rivers and seas shape the land to means used to date rocks and much more. An excellent science or study text for young adults, especially recommended for high school library collections.
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And how is this a field guide?
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-02-21
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
The words "field guide" imply a book that can be carried in the field to identify features (e.g. "Audubon Field Guide" series). A looser interpretation would be a manual that teaches people to interpret features in the field (e.g. Robert Compton's classic "Geology in the Field"). David Lambert's "The Field Guide to Geology" is neither. It is a simple introduction to geology accompanied by many drawings and diagrams. The book is useful for high school earth science students and younger, but any basic college-level physical geology text provides a more thorough introduction to geology -- with more sophisticated graphics, too.
So, if you want a snapshot of important concepts in basic physical geology, take a look at "Field Guide to Geology" or search in Wikipedia under "Geology." If you want a detailed introduction, take a look at an introductory-level college physical or historical (for fossils) geology textbook. If you want a true field guide, there are many good series such as the Audubon or Peterson series.
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Excellent beginner book.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-11-25
25 out of 25 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a student in engineering geology, I found this book to be
a very good reference but with no in-depth reading. For the novice, I would recommend
this to see if you're interested in the field of geology; but for an intermediate
or advanced geology enthusiast, I would recommend a more scientific book.There are no photographs but rather drawings of the various
components of geology. The artist did well, but nothing can amount to the incredible
display of mass wasting, or the delicate detail of Micas
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This is an excellent guide for beginning geology students.
Rating (5)
Date: 1997-11-11
20 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is an excellent guide for beginning geology students and a very good review for more advanced students. Should be on all geologist's shelves.
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