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This four volume set is used a lot by my GIS and Climatology students.
My hard rock folks don't find it too useful although there are a few
pages on such topics as Analytical and Metamorphic Petrology, Optical
Mineralogy, Igneous Petrogenesis, and Ore Formation.
 
The real emphasis is on interaction, circulation, distribution -  of
sediments,  of atmospheric, fluid as well as solid, components, of
oceanic tides, of winds and rivers and subsurface activity, etc. -
how they affect the earth and how it, in turn, affects life past and
present.
 
I recommend it highly.
 
  Susan Thompson
  ISU Science Library