Geology 305 Earth Science

Spring 2020, TTh 3:00-4:20pm

Instructor: Arthur Reed, P.G.

 

 

 

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Introduction

v SmartFigure I.7 Earth’s Layers

v SmartFigure I.11 Geologic Time

 

Chapter 1, Matter and Minerals

v SmartFigure 1.3 Rocks

v SmartFigure 1.11 Mineral Color

v SmartFigure 1.14 Crystal Habit

v SmartFigure 1.15 Hardness

v SmartFigure 1.17 Cleavage

 

Chapter 2, Rocks

v SmartFigure 2.1 Rock Cycle

v SmartFigure 2.4 Igneous Rock Textures

v SmartFigure 2.6 Igneous Rock Classification

v SmartFigure 2.13 Mechanical Weathering

v SmartFigure 2.14 Frost Wedging

v SmartFigure 2.15 Unloading and Sheeting

v SmartFigure 2.23 Bonneville Salt Flats

v SmartFigure 2.24 Coal Formation

v SmartFigure 2.29 Confining Pressure and Stress

 

Chapter 3, Landscapes by Water

v SmartFigure 3.4 The Grand Canyon

v SmartFigure 3.7 The Hydrologic Cycle

v SmartFigure 3.9 Mississippi Drainage Basin

v SmartFigure 3.18 Cut Banks and Point Bars

v SmartFigure 3.38 Cone of Depression

v SmartFigure 3.39 Artesian Systems

 

Chapter 4, Glaciers and Deserts

v SmartFigure 4.6 Zones of a Glacier

v SmartFigure 4.11 Glacial Landforms

v SmartFigure 4.17 Glacial Depositional Landforms

v SmartFigure 4.24 Dry Climates

v SmartFigure 4.28 Basin and Range Landscapes

v SmartFigure 4.33 Desert Pavement

v SmartFigure 4.36 Cross Bedding

 

Chapter 5, Plate Tectonics

v SmartFigure 5.2 Reconstruction of Pangaea

v SmartFigure 5.10 Lithosphere over the Asthenosphere

v SmartFigure 5.15 Continental Rifting

v SmartFigure 5.17 Convergent Plate Boundaries

v SmartFigure 5.22 Transform Plate Boundaries

v SmartFigure 5.29 Magnetic Reversals

 

Chapter 6, Earthquakes and Structures

v SmartFigure 6.5 Elastic Rebound

v SmartFigure 6.9 P and S Waves

v SmartFigure 6.33 Deformed Sedimentary Strata

v SmartFigure 6.34 Types of Folds 

v SmartFigure 6.44 Terrane Accretion 

v SmartFigure 6.46 India Collision

 

Chapter 7, Volcanoes and Igneous Activity

v SmartFigure 7.9 Anatomy of a Volcano

v SmartFigure 7.21 Super-eruptions at Yellowstone

v SmartFigure 7.34 Earth’s Zones of Volcanism

v SmartFigure 7.35 Subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate

 

Chapter 8, Geologic Time

v SmartFigure 8.6 Inclusions

v SmartFigure 8.7 Angular Unconformity

v SmartFigure 8.12 Deciphering Geologic History of an area

v SmartFigure 8.16 Fossil Assemblage

v SmartFigure 8.19 Radioactive Decay

 

Chapter 9, Oceans

v SmartFigure 9.2 Distribution of Land and Water

v SmartFigure 9.4 Variations in Ocean Surface T° and Salinity wLatitude

v SmartFigure 9.8 Ocean Density Variations with Depth

v SmartFigure 9.13 Satellite Altimeter

v SmartFigure 9.19 Active Continental Margins

v SmartFigure 9.24 Seafloor Hydrogenous Sediments

 

Chapter 10, Restless Ocean

v SmartFigure 10.2 Major Surface Ocean Currents

v SmartFigure 10.5 Coastal Upwelling

v SmartFigure 10.10 Passage of a Wave

v SmartFigure 10.15 Wave Refraction

v SmartFigure 10.16 Longshore Transport

v SmartFigure 10.27 East Coast Estuaries

v SmartFigure 10.31 Tidal Patterns

 

Chapter 11, Heating the Atmosphere

v SmartFigure 11.5 Monthly CO2 Concentrations

v SmartFigure 11.7 Antarctic Ozone Hole

v  SmartFigure 11.12 Seasonal Sun Angle Change

v SmartFigure 11.16 Solstice and Equinox

v SmartFigure 11.18 Three Mechanisms of Heat Transfer

v SmartFigure 11.20 Incoming Solar Radiation

v SmartFigure 11.23 The Greenhouse Effect

v SmartFigure 11.24 U.S. Energy Consumption

v SmartFigure 11.29 Temperature Projections to 2100

v SmartFigure 11.31 Isotherms

v SmartFigure 11.32 Coast vs Inland Mean Temperatures

v SmartFigure 11.36 Clear vs Overcast Daily Temperatures

v SmartFigure 11.38 World Mean Sea-level Temperature in July

 

Chapter 12, Moisture, Clouds, Precipitation

v SmartFigure 12.2 Changes in State in Calories

v SmartFigure 12.13 Surface Convergence and Updrafts

v SmartFigure 12.17 Absolute Stability

v SmartFigure 12.20 Cloud Classification

v SmartFigure 12.25 Fogs Days Map of US and Canada

v SmartFigure 12.30 Formation of Hailstones

 

Chapter 13, Atmosphere in Motion

v SmartFigure 13.2 Inches and Millibars

v SmartFigure 13.7 Isobars on a Weather Map

v SmartFigure 13.8 Coriolis Effect

v SmartFigure 13.17 Global Atmosphere Circulation

 

Chapter 14, Weather Patterns and Severe Weather

v SmartFigure 14.14 Snowfall Map near Great Lakes

v SmartFigure 14.11 Mid-latitude Cyclone

v SmartFigure 14.19 Thunderstorm Development

v SmartFigure 14.23 Tornado Formation

 

Chapter 15, The Solar System

v SmartFigure 15.5 Ptolemy’s Explanation of Retrograde

v SmartFigure 15.14 Galileo and Venus

v SmartFigure 15.16 Orbital Motion of Earth and other Planets

v SmartFigure 15.17 Orbits of the Planets

v SmartFigure 15.19 Bodies with and without Atmospheres

v SmartFigure 15.23 Formation of Lunar Impact Basins

v SmartFigure 15.29 Olympus Mons

v SmartFigure 15.45 Meteor Crater in Arizona

 

Chapter 16, Beyond our Solar system

v SmartFigure 16.8 Hertzsprung - Russell diagram

v SmartFigure 16.10 Evolutionary Stages of Stars

v SmartFigure 16.16 Spiral Galaxies

v SmartFigure 16.22 Raisin Bread Analogy