Fundamentals Of Geology – Popular Outline by V. Obruchev

A book outlining major areas and observational phenomena of geology for general readers. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of geological phenomena.

Translated from the Russian by David Myshne and Persy Ludwick

Introduction 5
I. What the Brook Murmurs 9
II. At the Sea-Shore 37
III. How Water Works Underground 58
IV. Rock Weathering 75
V. Wind Action 99
VI. Travelling Stones 127
VII. Products of the Earth’s Entrails 164
VIII. Building and Destruction of Mountains 204
IX. Why the Earth Shakes Now Here and Now There 242
X. Brief History of Our Earth 258
XI, Catastrophes in the History of the Earth 292
XII. What Riches the Earth Contains 329
XIII. The Young Pathfinder 351
Russian Bibliography 372

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