本书是中国地质大学(北京)自1989年在国内开展地质学领域的专业英语教学以来,地质专业和大学英语教师通力合作的成果。这本教材改变了传统的专业英语教材的做法,具有新颖的形式和内容。它以基础地质为内容重点,涉及古气候学、古海洋学、古地理学、大地构造演化、地质灾害、地球环境和地质思维方法等方面。教材具有较强的实用性和前瞻性,能够基本满足教与学双方的最新期望,符合英语语言和地质学专业的认知特点和规律,适合高等院校地质学及相关专业高年级本科生使用。
Unit 1
Text A Cosmic Beginnings
Text B Depositional Environment
Unit 2
Text A Superposition: A Fundamental Law of Geology
Text B Plate Tectonics
Unit 3
Text A Fossils to Date Rocks
Text B The Most Famous Cambrian Fossils in the World
Unit 4
Text A Paleomagnetics: A Most Significant Synthesis of Earth Sciences
Text B Volcanism
Unit 5
Text A Plutonism and Metamorphism
Text B Deformation of the Earth's Crust: Folding
Unit 6
Text A Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism
Text B Rocks and Rock Cycle
Unit 7
Text A Geologic Maps
Text B Mesozoic Sea-level Changes: An Argument with Exxon Curve
Unit 8
Text A Humans, the Earth and Geologists
Text B Highlights of Fossil Plant Research in Dinosaur Provincial Park
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