GEOL 106 Final: GEOL106 - ALL KEY LECTURE NOTES TO STUDY FOR 106 FINAL

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: John Hanes

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Topics: hurricanes/typhoons and tornadoes, floods/droughts, volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, extraterrestrial impacts, etc. Lac megantic tanker-train derailment: regional eg. oil sands mining, alberta cotton, eg. Chlorofluorocarbons (destroys the ozone layer: ozone (cid:498)hole(cid:499) greatest around the poles, eg. Topic 2: intro to earth-system science and : managing earth systems = earth-systems engineering, doing things for human needs. Mitigate geological hazards: all about natural hazards. Minimize and adjust to the effects of global and environmental change (cid:498)natural(cid:499) and anthropogenic: local, regional, and global. Solar energy planetary sources use planetary sinks heat loss. Manage the risks: major theme of the course. Measure the amount of lead (pb) atoms (which are in the dust trapped in the ice) What about even earlier human impact: eg. Agriculture (fire used to clear the land for agriculture: there is evidence that there was an impact on the ecosystem and climate.