Elements of Geology: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Elements of Geology, credited to William Harmon Norton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton. Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in the field. The present work, however, is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit together as closely as possible,—a need long felt by the author in his teaching, and perhaps by other teachers also. The author has ventured, therefore, to depart from the common usage which subdivides geology into a number of departments,—dynamical, structural, physiographic, and historical,—and to treat in immediate connection with each geological process the land forms and the rock structures which it has produced. (Summary from the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Elements of Geology
• Author credits: William Harmon Norton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 13:39:28

Catalogue topics

• instruction
• nature
• science

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 Preface & Introductory Note — 8:48
2. 02 Introduction — 7:30
3. 03 Ch. I: The Work of the Weather, pt 1 — 26:02
4. 04 Ch. I: The Work of the Weather, pt 2 — 37:34
5. 05 Ch. II: The work of Ground Water — 28:59
6. 06 Ch. III: Rivers and Valleys, pt 1 — 29:59
7. 07 Ch. III: Rivers and Valleys, pt 2 — 40:52
8. 08 Ch. IV: River Deposits — 35:50
9. 09 Ch. V: The Work of Glaciers, pt 1 — 26:45
10. 10 Ch. V: The Work of Glaciers, pt 2 — 19:57
11. 11 Ch. VI: The Work of the Wind — 17:58
12. 12 Ch. VII: The Sea and its Shores — 32:33
13. 13 Ch. VIII: Offshore and Deep Sea Deposits — 40:39
14. 14 Ch. IX: Movements of the Earth's Crust, pt 1 — 29:43
15. 15 Ch. IX: Movements of the Earth's Crust, pt 2 — 25:25
16. 16 Ch. X: Earthquakes — 11:56
17. 17 Ch. XI: Volcanoes — 50:16
18. 18 Ch. XII: Underground Structures of Igneous Origin — 35:38
19. 19 Ch. XIII: Metamorphism and Mineral Veins — 16:02
20. 20 Ch. XIV: The Geological Record — 27:47
21. 21 Ch. XV: The Pre-Cambrian Systems — 30:39
22. 22 Ch. XVI: The Cambrian — 25:53
23. 23 Ch. XVII: The Ordovician and Silurian — 27:33
24. 24 Ch. XVIII: The Devonian — 21:45

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