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Acknowledgments

The authors thank all those at John Wiley & Sons who worked with them on the second edition. Special thanks are due Rosie Hayden, Antony Samy, Anandan Bommen, Umar Saleem and Andrew Harrison. Their first edition greatly benefited from guidance provided by Ian Francis, Kelvin Matthews, Jane Andrews, Delia Sandford, Camille Poire, Catherine Flack and, once again, Rosie Hayden. The authors are grateful to Anita O’Brien who provided the index for both editions. We once again thank reviewers for the first edition who greatly improved the textbook, while in no way being responsible for its shortcomings. These individuals include Malcolm Hill, Stephen Nelson, Lucian Platt, Steve Dutch, Duncan Heron, Jeremy Inglis, Maria Luisa Crawford, Barbara Cooper, Alec Winters, David H. Eggler, Cin‐Ty Lee, Samantha Kaplan, Penelope Morton and Ellen D’Andrea.

The authors truly appreciate many individuals and publishers who generously permitted reproduction of their figures and images from published work, educational websites and/or personal collections. The authors are particularly indebted to Doug Moore, Steve Dutch, Stephen Nelson, Kurt Hollacher, Gregory Finn, Patrice Rey, Neil Heywood, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada and the Geological Society of America.

Kevin Hefferan would especially like to thank his wife Sherri and children Kaeli, Patrick, Sierra, Keegan and Quintin and parents Patrick and Catherine for their love, laughter and never wavering enthusiasm. Kevin is also grateful for the support of the Department of Marine Science, Safety and Environmental Protection at Massachusetts Maritime Academy of Buzzards Bay, MA. Kevin expresses his appreciation to all his collaborative colleagues through the years especially Jeff Karson, Tony Rathburn, William Hubbard, Heather Burton, Abderrahmane Soulaimani, Hassan Admou, Ali Saquaque, Nasrrrddine Youbi, Lucian Platt, Neil Heywood, Keith Rice, Doug Moore and Samantha Kaplan. Kevin was an undergraduate student of John O’Brien at New Jersey City University and greatly benefited from his wisdom as well as that of John Marchisin, Howard Parish and Barry Perlmutter.

John O’Brien would like to thank his wife Anita, his sons Tyler and Owen and granddaughter Scarlett for their love and support. John worked for 41 years in the Department of Geoscience‐Geography (now Earth and Environmental Sciences) at New Jersey City State University. He is now retired and living in the San Francisco Bay area. Sabbaticals from the University in 2005 and again in 2011, gave John the time required to complete this project. John wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Ansel Gooding, Charles Martin, Wayne Martin, John Pope, Robert Webb, John Crowell, Don Runnels, Joe Clark and Barry Perlmutter for encouraging, supporting and challenging him at critical times in his career.

The authors believe that an understanding of Earth materials is more important than ever in this twenty‐first century in order to appropriately utilize essential resources, for mitigating geohazards and dealing with environmental change. Universities and government agencies would be wise to revitalize the Earth science and geology curricula in the United States and other countries around the world. We must all renew efforts to use our resources wisely and to engage the green economy.