摘要
Exploring Geoscience Across the Globe by Chris King is a recently published online textbook that can be freely downloaded from the IGEO website at:http://www.igeoscied.org/teaching-resources/geoscience-text-books/.The textbook,published with the approval of the International Union of Geological Sciences(IUGS)and the European Geosciences Union(EGU),is focussed on the International Geoscience Syllabus which covers all that an able sixteen-year-old student should know and understand about Earth science on leaving school.