Geology 300: Physical Geology

Geology 301: Physical Geology Lab

Geology 305: Earth Science

Geology 306: Earth Science Lab

Instructor: Arthur Reed, P.G.

Links to Interesting Articles, Papers, & Geologic Processes Handouts:

(NOTE: some of these files are large, so downloads may be slow)

· Thoughts on global population growth (NatGeo, 2011)

· Why gold became popular (NPR, 2010)

· Yellowstone magma plume (2009)

· Drought Hurt Rome (2009, ancient Rome)

· Drilling into Magma (2009, in Hawaii)

· Woolly Mammoth Clone (2008)

· Rock Reveals Moon had Liquid Core (2009)

· Snowball Earth (2009, past global glaciations?)

· Coastal geomorphology research (EOS, 2009)

· Alaska volcano breaks pattern (EOS, 2009)

· Decreased water use in the US (EOS, 2009)

· Drought in Mexico (EOS, 2009)

· Earth’s inner core crystal structure (EOS, 2009)

· Examining the consensus on climate change (EOS, 2009)

· El Nino (EOS, 2009)

· Geoscience field education (EOS, 2009)

· Giant scours in the deep ocean (EOS, 2009)

· Global methane emissions from swamps (EOS, 2009)

· Greenland ice sheet melt and runoff (EOS, 2009)

· Gulf of Mexico hypoxia (EOS, 2009)

· Large dams effects on rainfall (EOS, 2009)

· Northern California’s active faults (EOS, 2009)

· Recovery of the ozone layer (EOS, 2009)

· Rethinking water scarcity (EOS, 2009)

· Shallow submarine hydrothermal near Italy (EOS, 2009)

· Current sunspots appear to be different (EOS, 2009)

· Water confirmed on moon (EOS, 2009)

· Western US igneous rock database (EOS, 2009)

· What’s needed for a planet to sustain its water & atmosphere (2008)

· Underground Water storage test in Roseville (2005, storing water in an underground aquifer?)

· La Conchita landslide study (2005, USGS)

· 1929 Grand Banks Turbidity Current Tsunami (2005)

· 1929 Grand Banks Turbidity Current Facts (2002)

· Papers proposing and countering the post ice age Black Sea abrupt drowning hypothesis (1997, the great flood?)

· SW United States regional uplift hypothesis (1995, Grand Canyon area)

· Tungsten report, mining in the Transverse Range (1982, SCGS)

· History of Shasta Dam (US Bureau of Reclamation)

· ‘Sailing stones’ on ‘Racetrack’ playa in the California desert (information widespread)

Handouts:

· Important Dates in the flood history of Sacramento

· What happens when granite weathers? (2009)

·

N.