Leeder M., Pérez-Arlucea M. Physical Processes in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 336 p.Environment is medio ambiente in the Spanish language, somehow a more apposite and elegant term than the English. You, our reader, will have your own medio ambiente around your daily life and in your own interactions with landscape, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. Some environments will be dramatic and potentially dangerous, perhaps under the threat of active volcanic eruption, close to an active plate boundary or close to a floodplain with rising river levels. In order to understand the outer Earth and to manipulate or modify natural environments in a sensitive and safe way it is necessary to have a basic physical understanding of how Earth physical processes work and how the various parts of the Earth system interact physically – hence our book. It is written with the aim of explaining the basic physical processes affecting the outer Earth, its hydrosphere and atmosphere. It starts from basic physical principles and aims to prepare the reader for exposure to more advanced specialized texts that seldom explain the basic science involved. The book is cumulative and unashamedly linear in the sense that it gradually builds upon what has gone previously.Planet Earth and Earth systems.
Matters of state and motion.
Forces and dynamics.
Flow, deformation, and transport.
Inner Earth processes and systems.
Outer Earth processes and systems.
Appendix.
Cookies.