Lecture notes for Geology 101: How the Earth Works
1- Matter and energy: the fundamentals
2- Origin and character of the solar system
3- current views of earth from space - light/dark/weather, etc.
4- Earth systems and - Heat of the earth
Additional reading
Interesting Web sites
1- Introduction to how to tell time and the geological time scale.
2- An excellent review of plate tectonics.
Latest news
Interesting Web sites
All you want to know about wind and wind power
Additional reading
About climate warming
6- Minerals
The rock cycle - a link between rocks and tectonics.
7- Igneous rocks and Volcanoes
8- Melting - phase diagrams
Interesting Web sites
Want to know more about Mt. Vesuvius?
A volcanic catastrophy of the past
9- Weathering
10- Soils
11- Erosion
12- Mass Wasting
Additional reading
January, 1999 issue--Atlantic Monthly: Liquid Earth an excellent report on current research and information about landslides
Interesting Web sites
Pictures of mass wasting features.
13- Deformation
14- Water, Groundwater
15- Rivers
16- Coasts
17- Glaciers and Ice
18- Aridity and wind
Wind erosion in the U.S
19- Earthquakes and Plate tectonics
20- Magnetism
Interesting Web sites
A great site for earthquake information
Human impact of earthquakes and other plate edge phenomena.
21 - Plates and plate motions, features of plate edges.
There are a number of web pages that show the development of Earth with time due to these plate motions. Global Earth History is a presentation that uses a series of plate-tectonic reconstructions to show the broad patterns of Phanerozoic Earth history. Both horizontal and vertical links are provided for viewing the plates: horizontal links provide time-slices (e.g. Cambrian, Devonian, Triassic, etc.) of different kinds of data on maps and other illustrations whereas vertical links provide a dynamic portrayal of Earth history through a succession of plate-tectonic reconstructions.
Geological Time Machine, a site that gives more detailed information on the events that occurred during the geological past, including the fossil record for different time periods.
Also do not forget An excellent review of plate tectonics.
Web sites on geology of the east coast
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Last revised May 10, 2000