Edited by Ailsa Allaby and Michael Allaby
6000 entries
Oxford's fully up-to-date Dictionary of Earth Sciences is authoritative and wide-ranging. Its exceptionally broad coverage includes climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology.
There are entries on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, wind strength scales, material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units, geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales. This is an essential reference for all students of the subject, especially those in interdisciplinary courses.
Ailsa Allaby is a writer, editor, and contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History.
Michael Allaby is a well-known writer on science and the environment. He is General Editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History.
