The Geology of Texas is written to accompany introductory courses including physical and historical geology, as well as physical geography, and was designed to compliment the topics of those courses for students in Texas and surrounding regions. The chapter follows the geologic history of Texas from the Precambrian to recent, with illustrations from virtually all parts of the state. Students will see how plate tectonics as well as surficial processes have created the Texas landscape, and how that geologic record influenced the settlement of Texas and the importance of geology to the inhabitants of the region today. A major theme of the chapter is economic geology, with attention to Texas’ important energy resources, especially petroleum and coal, and also the vital groundwater sources that will become increasingly important to the regions’ growing population. Environmental issues are also stressed, including the impacts of frequent hurricanes and large floods.
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| About the Author |  |
Reid Ferring is a professor in the department of geography at the University of North Texas. He earned doctorates in anthropology at Southern Methodist University (1980) and geology at the University of Texas at Dallas (1993). He has conducted research in prehistory, Quaternary geology and geoarchaeology in the Southern Plains of the US, Portugal, Israel and Crimea. Since 1993 he has been studying the Plio-Pleistocene geology of the southern Caucasus in the Republic of Georgia, and is a member of the team excavating at Dmanisi, a 1.8 million year-old site bearing the oldest Homo erectus fossils in Eurasia. He was recently named a fellow of the Geological Society of America.
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The series can be bound into any Cengage Learning text to create a more compelling regional edition to help you highlight relevant material.
ISBN-10: 0-7593-9079-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-7593-9079-9
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Order the special Geology of Texas Edition of the following texts by using the special ISBNs below:
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| 1. Monroe/Wicander/Hazlett | Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth, 6e | ISBN-10: 0-495-30072-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-495-30072-4 |
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| 2. Wicander/Monroe | Essentials of Physical Geology 5e with Geology of Texas | ISBN-10:0-495-76333-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-495-76333-8 |
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| 3. Monroe/Wicander | Changing Earth: Exploring the Earth and Evolution, 4e | ISBN-10: 0-495-30963-X ISBN-13: 978-0-495-30963-5 |
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| 4. Hyndman/Hyndman | Natural Hazards & Disasters, 2006 Katrina Update | ISBN-10: 0-495-30964-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-495-30964-2 |
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| 5. Wicander/Monroe | Historical Geology 5e | ISBN-10: 0-495-40554-X ISBN-13: 978-0-495-40554-2 |
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| 6. Pipkin/Trent/Hazlett | Geology & The Environment, 5e | ISBN-10: 0-495-30966-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-495-30966-6 |
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| 7. Thompson/Turk | Earth Science and the Environment, 4e | ISBN-10: 0-495-30967-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-495-30967-3 |
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