A flexible organization to fit your lab
Ludman and Marshak’s modular chapters are flexible and easy to assign with any introductory geology textbook, especially Marshak’s Earth: Portrait of a Planet and Essentials of Geology.
The Fifth Edition has a revised and expanded discussion of plate tectonics, which is introduced in Ch. 2: The Way the Earth Works: Examining Plate Tectonics, and further explored in a new Ch. 10: Plate Tectonics II: A Deeper Understanding, which builds on the coverage of minerals, rocks, rock deformation, and earthquakes presented in the preceding chapters.
Part 1: What is Geology?
1. Setting the Stage for Learning about the Earth
2. The Way the Earth Works: Examining Plate Tectonics
Part 2: What Is Earth Made Of?
3. Minerals
4. Minerals, Rocks, and the Rock Cycle
5. Using Igneous Rocks to Interpret Earth History
6. Using Sedimentary Rocks to Interpret Earth History
7. Interpreting Metamorphic Rocks
8. Interpreting Features of Deformed Rock
9. Earthquakes and Seismology
10. Plate Tectonics II: A Deeper Understanding
Part 3: Earth’s Changing Surface
11. Studying the Earth's Landforms: Maps and Other Tools
12. Working with Topographic Maps
13. Landscapes Formed by Streams
14. Groundwater as a Landscape Former and Resource
15. Glacial Landscapes
16. Processes and Landforms in Arid Environments
17. Shoreline Landscapes
Part 4: Geologic Time
18. Interpreting Geologic History: What Happened and When Did it Happen?
19. Looking to the Future: How Will Humans Be Affected by Changes in the Earth System?
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