​Political geology was created to bring together geology and politics in new ways. It developed largely within a mgeographers and was, in part, inspired by discussions surrounding the Anthropocene. But political geology also resonated with conversations across the humanities with shared interests in the social life of geology and the geology of social life. Political geology attempted to extend those interests by foregrounding the geos in the geopolitical at the very moment when many contemporary geopolitical analyses had forgotten that the geos of politics was actual material: grounded geological processes.

Назначение настоящего учебника — дать студентам по возможности ясное представление о Земле как природном теле, о составе и строении земной коры и о процессах эндогенного и экзогенного характера. В каждой главе учебника дается не только общее представление о минералах, горных породах, геологических процессах, геохронологии и т. д., но и рассматривается зависимость происхождения минеральных масс от развития тех или иных процессов и развития тех или иных процессов от минерального состава земной коры.
Книга предназначается не только для студентов, изучающих курс общей геологии, но и для преподавателей, читающих этот курс. В учебнике 5 таблиц и 169 рисунков. Подавляющее большинство фотографий (рис. 5, 7—10, 13—21, 23, 24, 26—35, 37, 38, 42, 48—52, 54, 56,60—65, 70—73, 75, 78, 83, 84, 86, 87—89, 98—100, 106, 107, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119 и 123) выполнены автором.

In 1969, when I was a student in California, there was a rash of predictions from astrologers, clairvoyants, and evangelists that there would be a devastating earthquake and the entire state—or at least a large part of it—would fall into the ocean. The seers claimed this would happen during April, although they were not in agreement about the precise date.

The geologic story of North America is a fascinating one. It’s also more than 4 billion years long—much more than we could ever hope to cover here. However, if you’re curious about the world around you, enjoy the big-picture perspective, and are interested in some of the processes that are constantly reshaping our planet, here’s a crash course on the basics. It’s a good place to start on your aerial tour of the continent’s most breathtaking landforms.

Geologists, also known as Geoscientists, are trying to understand the constitution of the earth. The surficial portion, which is directly visible to the geologists, is made up more of water bodies (the seas, the oceans, and the lakes, together constitute nearly 2/3rds of the entire surface of the earth) than the land masses (Africa, America, Asia etc.). Large area of land around the north and the southpoles, is covered with a thick blanket of ice sheet, throughout the year.