Reviews
...a marvellous, eclectic, pleasurably eccentric volume, a book that goesfar beyond the mere study of the soil beneath our feet, '"...the editors of and contributors to The Oxford Companion to the Earthhave produced an enjoyable, informative and entertaining reference book destinedto become the friend of the professional and amateur alike."'The Times Highers, '"...the editors of and contributors to The Oxford Companion to the Earth have produced an enjoyable, informative and entertaining reference book destined to become the friend of the professional and amateur alike."'The Times Highers, This book is strongly and unequivically recommended both for libraries and personal use. It fulfils its aims of being a readable companion and reliable hive of information, written by experts but in an interesting and understandable manner., Contents List - Page 1 There are over 900 entries to the Companion; a full headword list is available from Susan Harrison, and will be sent to all OUP Offices and Branches. The following offers a selection from the list: Acid raid Age and early history of the Earth and solar system Amphibians Andean and Cordilleran mountain belts Antarctic climate Anticyclone Atlantis: geological fact or fiction? Asbestos Badlands Beaches Biostratigraphy Burgess shale fauna Canada Catastrophism and uniformitarianism Caves Climate models Continental drift Coral reefs Dating rocks Deserts Diamonds Dinosaurs Earthquake hazards and predictions El Nino Environmental toxicology Erosion Faults and faulting Flash floods Fossils and folklore Gaia Geochemical mineral exploration Geographical information systems Geological controversies Geomorphology Giant planets Gravel resources Groundwater Hot spots Hydrology Ice ages Industrail waste disposal Intrusion types and intrusive igneous rocks Jet streams Knickpoints Lamarck Lava Limestones Magma and magmatism Mantle and core composition Marine geology mid-ocian ridges Mineral water Natural gas Nuclear energy Ocean chemistry Ore deposits Ordovician Origin of life Ozone layer Palaeovolcanism and climate change Peatlands and bogs Petroleum Plate tectonics Quicksand Radioactive elements Remote sensing Rivers and streams Seismic exploration methods Slope stability Soil erosion Solar cycles Stratigraphy Surface water Tethys Tornadoes Tsunamis Unconformity Vegetation and climate change Volcanoes Weather fronts Wetlands zoogeomorphology Contents List - Page 2 Ocean chemistry Ore deposits Ordovician Origin of life Ozone layer Paleovolcanism and climate change Peatland and bog Petroleum Plate tectonics Quicksand Radioactive elements Remote sensing Rivers and streams Seismic exploration methods Slope stability Soil erosion Solar cycles Stratigraphy Surface water Tethys Tornadoes Tsunamis Unconformity Vegetation and climate change Volcanoes Weather fronts Wetlands Zoogeomorphology, '"...an enjoyable, informative and entertaining reference book destined to become the friend of the professional and amateur alike"'THES, This book is strongly and unequivically recommended both for librariesand personal use. It fulfils its aims of being a readable companion and reliablehive of information, written by experts but in an interesting and understandablemanner., '"...an enjoyable, informative and entertaining reference book destined tobecome the friend of the professional and amateur alike"'THES, '"...a marvellous, eclectic, pleasurably eccentric volume, a book that goes far beyond the mere study of the soil beneath our feet"'Observer
