Physical Description:1 atlas (95 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 34 cmprint
Publisher:[New York, N.Y.] : Michael Friedman Pub. Group, c2002, c2001.
General Note: Includes index and maps with aerial views of the earth.Originally published: London, U.K. : Z Publishing, c2001.Cover subtitle: Mountains, glaciers, oceans, lakes, & rivers, deserts, global weather, pollution, dramatic images from space.Relief shown pictorially and by gradient tints, shading, and land forms.
Formatted Contents Note: Earth in space -- Air around us -- Earth movements -- Moving plates -- Volcano -- Spreading rifts -- Building mountains -- Shake, rattle, and roll -- Rock story -- Fallen stars -- Squashed forests -- Black gold -- Rivers -- Lakes -- Deltas -- Eroding earth -- Shifting deserts -- Polar regions -- Rivers of ice -- Frozen earth -- Moving bands -- Ocean currents -- El Nino -- Seas and tides -- Changing coasts -- Coral islands -- Global weather -- Clouds and storms -- Killer winds -- Marks of man -- Holes in the sky -- Soiled waters -- Americas and the eastern Pacific -- Europe and Africa -- Asia, Australia, and the western Pacific -- North and South Poles.