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
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I.11 Geologic Time
Chapter 1, Matter and Minerals
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1.11 Mineral Color
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1.14 Crystal Habit
Chapter 2, Rocks
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2.4 Igneous Rock Textures
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2.6 Igneous Rock Classification
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2.13 Mechanical Weathering
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2.14 Frost Wedging
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2.15 Unloading and Sheeting
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2.23 Bonneville Salt Flats
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2.24 Coal Formation
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2.29 Confining Pressure and Stress
Chapter 3, Landscapes by Water
v SmartFigure 3.4 The Grand Canyon
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3.7 The Hydrologic Cycle
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3.9 Mississippi Drainage Basin
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3.18 Cut Banks and Point Bars
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3.38 Cone of Depression
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3.39 Artesian Systems
Chapter 4, Glaciers and Deserts
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4.6 Zones of a Glacier
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4.11 Glacial Landforms
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4.17 Glacial Depositional Landforms
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4.24 Dry Climates
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4.28 Basin and Range Landscapes
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4.33 Desert Pavement
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4.36 Cross Bedding
Chapter 5, Plate Tectonics
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5.2 Reconstruction of Pangaea
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5.10 Lithosphere over the Asthenosphere
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5.15 Continental Rifting
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5.17 Convergent Plate Boundaries
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5.22 Transform Plate Boundaries
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5.29 Magnetic Reversals
Chapter 6, Earthquakes and Structures
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6.5 Elastic Rebound
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6.9 P and S Waves
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6.33 Deformed Sedimentary Strata
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6.34 Types of Folds
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6.44 Terrane Accretion
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6.46 India Collision
Chapter 7, Volcanoes and Igneous
Activity
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7.9 Anatomy of a Volcano
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7.21 Super-eruptions at Yellowstone
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7.34 Earth’s Zones of Volcanism
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7.35 Subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate
Chapter 8, Geologic Time
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8.7 Angular Unconformity
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8.12 Deciphering Geologic History of an area
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8.16 Fossil Assemblage
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8.19 Radioactive Decay
Chapter 9, Oceans
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9.2 Distribution of Land and Water
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9.4 Variations in Ocean Surface T° and Salinity wLatitude
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9.8 Ocean Density Variations with Depth
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9.13 Satellite Altimeter
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9.19 Active Continental Margins
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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 11.32 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