Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction to earth -- Portraying earth -- Introduction to the atmosphere -- Isolation and temperature -- Atmospheric pressure and wind -- Atmospheric moisture -- Transient atmospheric flows and disturbances -- Climatic zones and types -- The hydrosphere -- Cycles and patterns in the biosphere -- Terrestrial flora and fauna -- Soils -- Introduction to landform study -- The internal processes -- Preliminaries to erosion: weathering and mass wasting -- The fluvial processes -- Solution processes and karst topography -- The topography of arid lands -- Glacial modification of terrain -- Coastal processes and terrain -- Coastal processes and terrain -- Appendix I: Families of map projections -- Appendix II: Topographic map symbols -- Appendix III: The weather station model -- Appendix IV: Meteorological tables -- Appendix V: The international system of units -- Appendix VI: The soil taxonomy

System requirements for accompanying computer disk: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0x; Macintosh Power PC System 7.6.1 or above

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