The Twelfth Edition, Pearson Science’s first augmented reality, hybrid textbook, uses the BouncePages image recognition app (FREE on both iOS and Android stores) to connect students’ digital devices to the print textbook, enhancing their reading and learning experience. Tarbuck/Lutgens’s innovative SmartFigures feature has been expanded, adding new digital content via Project Condor, Mobile Field Trips by Michael Collier, Animated Figures, and additional tutorial videos from Callan Bentley.This edition also includes MasteringGeology, the most complete, easy-to-use, engaging tutorial and assessment tool available.

1. An Introduction to Geology

2. Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds

3. Matter and Minerals

4. Magma, Igneous Rocks, and Intrusive Activity

5. Volcanoes and Volcanic Hazards

6. Weathering and Soil

7. Sedimentary Rocks

8. Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks

9. Geologic Time

10. Crustal Deformation

11. Earthquakes and Earthquake Hazards

12. Earth's Interior

13. Origin and Evolution of the Ocean Floor

14. Mountain Building

15. Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity

16. Running Water

17. Groundwater

18. Glaciers and Glaciation

19. Deserts and Winds

20. Shorelines

21. Global Climate Change

22. Earth's Evolution Through Geologic Time

23. Energy and Mineral Resources

24. Touring Our Solar System

Appendix A: Metric and English Units Compared

Glossary

Index