01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phanerozoic, Archean, Hadean

There are many materials that the earth is composed of and their structures also vary from each other. Geologists are able to study and understand the 

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meteoroid, Solar Wind, Dynamo Theory

Chapter 2 - journey to the center of the earth. Our experience with earth is limited to its surface. Difference between the different names of space de

01:460:100 Lecture 3: Drifting continents and spreading seas

Chapter 2 - drifting continents and spreading seas. Alfred wegner - challenged the concept that continents were fixed. Suggested that all the continent

01:460:100 Lecture 4: The Way the Earth Works: Plate Tectonics

Chapter 4 - the way the earth work: plate tectonics. The paradigm of how the earth works . Earth"s outer shell is broken into rigid plates that move. M

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Biomineralization, Industrial Mineral, Chemical Formula

Mineralogist - people who specialize in the study of minerals - they discover (50-100) new minerals every year. Naturally occurring solid, formed by ge

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Source Rock, Igneous Rock, Basalt

Chapter 6 - up from the inferno: magma and igneous rocks. Solidifies molten rock [which freezes at high temp. ] Melted rock can cool above or below gro

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Silicate Minerals, Thermal Expansion, Weathering

Chapter 7 - pages of earth"s past: sedimentary rocks. Sediments - rock and mineral fragments, shells, mineral precipitates. Sedimentary cover - the ven

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Metamorphic Rock, Clay Minerals, Protolith

Chapter 8 - metamorphism: a process of change. Metamorphism - metamorphic rock forms from a pre-existing rock or protolith. During metamorphism, new mi

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lava Dome, Pyroclastic Flow, Andesite

Chapter 9 - the wrath of vulcan: volcanic eruptions. An erupting vent through which molten rock surfaces. Volcanoes are a clear result of tectonic acti

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thrust Fault, Hypocenter, Epicenter

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Orogeny, Continental Crust, Plate Tectonics

01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Deep Time, James Hutton, Mudcrack

Geologic time - discovering the magnitude of the earth"s past was a momentous discovery in the history of humanity. This discovery forever altered our 

01:460:100 Lecture 13: Squeezing Power from a Stone: Energy Resource

01:460:100 Lecture 14:

Chapter 15 - riches in rock: mineral resources. Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron, aluminum. Sand and gravel, gypsum, halite, dimension stone. Res

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Introductory geology for the nonscience major, designed to give a broad, basic understanding of the planet on which we reside, its age and origin, composition and evolution,†interrelationships of Earth's major physical systems, scientific revolutions in Earth science, and the role the physical Earth plays in global politics and economics.

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