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  • Published: 1 January 1987
  • ISBN: 9780385181013
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $45.00

Dictionary of Geological Terms

Third Edition



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

-hyphenation and pronunciation guide

-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.

  • Published: 1 January 1987
  • ISBN: 9780385181013
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $45.00