Lutgens 7e Online Animations

Geology 300: Physical Geology

Geology 301: Physical Geology Lab

Geology 305: Earth Science

Geology 306: Earth Science Lab

Instructor: Arthur Reed, P.G.

Publisher online animations arranged by chapter:

Ch 2: Rocks

2.2 Tuttle and Bowen's Data

2.3 Physical Weathering

2.5 Foliation of Metamorphic Rock

2.5 Foliation Processes

2.5 Exposing Metamorphic Rock

Ch 3: Landscapes Fashioned by Water

3.2 Mass Movements: Five Main Types

3.2 Mass Movements: Uplift and Mass Movement

3.3 Earth's Water and the Hydrologic Cycle

3.6 Sediment Transport by Streams

3.7 Stream Processes: Oxbow Lakes and Floodplain Development

3.9 Natural Levee Development with Flooding

3.9 Stream Terrace Formation

3.11 Water Table Formation

3.12 Cones of Depression

Ch 4: Glacial and Arid Landscapes

4.2 Glacial Advance and Retreat

4.4 Glacial Processes

4.5 Glacial Isostasy

4.9 Sediment Transport by Wind

4.10 Cross-Bedding

Ch 5: Plate Tectonics

5.4 Plate Boundary Features

5.4 Motion at Plate Boundaries

5.5 Divergent Boundary Formation

5.6 India Collision with Asia

5.7 Transform Faults

5.8 Seafloor Spreading and Magnetization

5.8 Inclination and Declination

5.8 Flipping of Earth's Magnetic Field

5.9 Convection and Tectonics

5.9 Seafloor Spreading and Plate Boundaries

5.9 Convection in a Lava Lamp

5.9 Sea-Floor Spreading, Subduction

5.10 Pangea Breakup

5.10 Global Geography Through Geologic Time

Ch 6: Earthquakes, Geologic Structures, and Mountain Building

6.1 Elastic Rebound

6.2 Seismographs

6.2 Seismic Wave Motion

6.5 Dry Compaction and Liquefaction

6.5 Tsunami

6.7 Wave Reflection and Refraction

6.7 Seismic Waves and Earth's Interior

6.8 Mantle and Core Dimensions

6.9 Stress and Strain Graphs

6.10 Erosion of Deformed Sedimentary Rock

6.10 Folds

6.11 Faults

6.12 Terrane Formation

Ch 7: Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity

7.4 Caldera Formation: Crater Lake

7.7 Volcano Types

7.8 Debris Avalanche and Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

7.10 Igneous Features and Landforms

7.11 Magma Rising from the Mantle

7.11 Mantle Melting and Plate Tectonics

7.12 Hot Spot Volcano Tracks

7.12 Tectonic Settings and Volcanic Activity

Ch 8: Geologic Time

8.2 Angular Uncomformities, Noncomformities, and Discomformities

8.2 Relative Geologic Dating

8.5 Radioactive Decay

Ch 9: Oceans

9.5 Turbidity Currents and the Formation of Graded Bedding

9.6 Seamounts/Tablemounts and Coral Reef Stages

9.8 Calcareous Ooze and the Calcite Compensation Depth

Ch 10: Restless Ocean: Circulation, Coasts, Tides

10.1 Ocean Circulation

10.4 Wave Properties

10.4 Wave Motion and Wave Refraction

10.4 Wave Interference

10.5 Beach Drift and Longshore Currents

10.7 Coastal Stabilization Structures

10.8 Shoreline and Sedimentation Changes

10.9 Tidal Cycle

Ch 11: Heating the Atmosphere

11.2 Ozone Depletion

11.4 Earth-Sun Relations

11.6 Earth-Atmosphere Energy Balance

Ch 12: Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation

12.1 Water Phase Changes

12.5 Atmospheric Stability

Ch 13: Atmospheric Circulation and Local Winds

13.1 Earth-Sun Relations, Seasons

13.2 Jet Stream and Rossby Waves

13.2 Coriolis Force

13.3 Cyclones and Anticyclones

13.3 Wind Pattern Development

13.4 Global Wind Patterns

13.4 Seasonal Pressure and Precipitation Patterns

13.4 Global Wind Circulation, Hadley Cells

Ch 14: Weather Patterns and Severe Weather

14.2 Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts

14.3 Mid-latitude Cyclones

14.5 Tornado Wind Patterns

14.6 Hurricane Wind Patterns

Ch 15: Our Solar System

15.3 Nebular Hypothesis of Solar System Formation