This user-friendly, best-selling lab manual examines the basic processes of geology and their applications to everyday life. Featuring contributions from over 170 highly regarded geologists and geoscience educators, along with an exceptional illustration program by Dennis Tasa, Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology, Ninth Edition offers a new activities-based approach that gives you a more complete learning experience in the lab.
This book is an excellent, very useful supplement for any intro course in Geology. It is not much of a read on its own, and would certainly not make much of a text on its own, but it isn't intended to stand alone. It's a lab manual; it's intended to be supplemental material, and as such, it accomplishes what it sets out to accomplish quite well.
if I wasn't taking the course along with the lab i never would have made it this far. This manual is far too brief and the instructions don't set things up properly. In other words, it is not a very efficient lab manual.