《地质专业英语》

Unit One1

Lesson One:The Scope of Geology1

Lesson Two:Physical Properties of Minerals9

Lesson Three:Standardization of Descriptions for Field Identification of Rock Types16

Lesson Four:Kingdom Protista23

Lesson Five:Structural Field Work30

Unit Two37

Lesson Six:Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rock37

Lesson Seven:Geochemistry of Epigenesis43

Lesson Eight:Geomathematics49

Lesson Nine:Remote Sensing:From Image to Number56

Lesson Ten:Jupiter's Icy Moon Could Support Life62

Unit Three68

Lesson Eleven:Economic Geology68

Lesson Twelve:Relationship of some Ore Deposits to Magmas77

Lesson Thirteen:Hydrothermal Deposits85

Lesson Fourteen:Mechanical Accumulations93

Lesson Fifteen:The Strata-bound Deposits100

Unit Four109

Lesson Sixteen:Nature of Geological Maps109

Lesson Seventeen:Geologic Time114

Lesson Eighteen:Marginal Zones of Orogenic Belts119

Lesson Nineteen:Plate Tectonics123

Lesson Twenty:Sedimentary Environments——Transitional Environments128

Lesson Twenty-one:Origin of Petroleum134

Lesson Twenty-two:Geophysics:Relationship with Geology141

Lesson Twenty-three:Ground-Water Systems146

Lesson Twenty-four:Co-operation of Geologists with Engineers150

Lesson Twenty-five:Environmental Geology155

Unit Five161

Final Examination161

Part One161

Part Two169

Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises177

Appendix Ⅱ Vocabulary180

Appendix Ⅲ References232