Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics 8th Edition - Solutions by Chapter

Usually narrow and consisting of highly deformed sediments. They occur where oceanic lithosphere is being subducted beneath the margin of a continent.

A fan-shaped deposit of sediment formed when a stream’s slope is abruptly reduced.

A slow motion of Earth’s axis that traces out a cone over a period of 26,000 years.

Tiny bits of particulate matter that serve as surfaces on which water vapor condenses.

An isotope resulting from radioactive decay.

A term used to describe plutons that cut across existing rock structures, such as bedding planes.

The combined effect of evaporation and transpiration.

The view that the Sun is at the center of the solar system.

One of the three main categories of meteorites. This group is composed largely of iron with varying amounts of nickel (5–20 percent). Most meteorite finds are irons.

A system for classifying climates devised by Wladimir Köppen that is based on mean monthly and annual values of temperature and precipitation.

Magma that reaches Earth’s surface.

A relatively flat, gently sloping plain consisting of materials deposited by meltwater streams in front of the margin of an ice sheet.

All geologic time prior to the Paleozoic era.

Fog formed when rain evaporates as it falls through a layer of cool air.

Fog having the appearance of steam, produced by evaporation from a warm water surface into the cool air above.

Sediments deposited by glacial meltwater.

A boundary in which two plates slide past one another without creating or destroying lithosphere.

By international agreement, a tropical cyclone with maximum winds between 61 and 119 kilometers (38 and 74 miles) per hour.

The state of the atmosphere at any given time.

The disintegration and decomposition of rock at or near Earth’s surface.