Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada. It is adapted from "Physical Geology" written by Steven Earle for the BCcampus Open Textbook Program, and "Physical Geology, First University of Saskatchewan Edition" by Karla Panchuk. This repository is a bookdown (https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown) adaptation of these projects to facilitate editing and sharing of this amazing project. Please see the page "Get Started" at https://bookdown.org/ for how to compile this source into an actual book (website, PDF, etc.).
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