Geosc 71 Classnotes
Topic 1 -- Relevance of "Geo" to "Geoevironmental"
Topic 2 -- How It All Began
Topic 3 -- Plate Tectonics - the unifying model
Topic 4 -- Minerals - building blocks for rocks
Topic 4a -- AMD - a mineral-environmental problem
Topic 5 -- Silicate Minerals
Topic 5a -- Crocodiles and Asbestos
Topic 6 -- The Fiery Furnace - plutons and volcanoes
Topic 7 -- Sedimentology - rock from mud
Topic 7a -- VIFLOW - Description
Topic 7b -- VIFLOW - Flow Model
Topic 8 -- Metamorphism - new crystals without melt
Topic 9 -- Reading History in the Rocks - stratigraphy
Topic 10 -- Darwin's Excellent Adventure
Topic 10a -- Sayonara T-Rex and the Geoenvironment
Topic 11 -- Madame Curie and Rock Ages - radioactivity
Topic 11a -- The Radon Problem
Topic 12a -- Rock Crackers -- squeezing info from rock
Topic 12 -- Cracks in Earth Armor - geologic structure
Topic 13 -- When Push came to Shove - the mountain ranges
Topic 14 -- Earthquakes and Seismic Tools
Topic 15 -- Bowels of the Hot Earth
Topic 16 -- Wegener's Hallucination
Topic 17 -- Northern Lights and Spreading Oceans
Topic 18 -- Appalachian Obelisk
Topic 19 -- How Soils are Made
Topic 20 -- Slip Slidin' Away
Topic 21 -- Reservoirs Underground
Topic 22 -- Rivers and Floods
Topic 23 -- Shorelines
Topic 24 -- Glaciers and Glacial Drift
Topic 25 -- The Industrial Minerals
Topic 26 -- Wealth Underground - oil and minerals
Topic 27 -- Outer Space
Topic 31 -- new page
Geological Column and Time Scale