Geology 300: Physical Geology

Below are links to supplemental lectures on geology topics.

These are intended to aid in your understanding of the subjects presented in this course.

30 min. lectures on the following areas:

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· 01 Geology’s Impact on History

· 02 Geologic History – Earth’s age

· 03 Earth’s interior Structure

· 04 Earth’s Heat

· 05 Plate Tectonics Basics

· 06 Making Matter (the Big Bang)

· 07 Creating Earth

· 08 The Rock Cycle

· 09 Minerals, rock building blocks

· 10 Magma

· 11 Crystallization

· 12 Volcanoes

· 13 Folds and Folding

· 14 Earthquakes

· 15 Plate Tectonics

· 16 Ocean Floor

· 17 Rifts and Ridges

· 18 Transform Faults

· 19 Subduction Zones

· 20 Continents Collide, Mountains are Built

· 21 Hot Spots (intraplate volcanism)

· 22 Destruction from Earthquakes and Volcanoes

· 23 Prediction of Natural Disasters

· 24 Anatomy of Mt St. Helens Volcanoes

· 25 Anatomy of the Sumatra Earthquake

· 26 History of Plate Motions

· 27 Assembling North America

· 28 Hydrologic Cycle

· 29 Water on Earth

· 30 Earth’s Atmosphere

· 31 Weathering and Erosion

· 32 Jungles and Deserts

· 33 Mass Wasting

· 34 Streams

· 35 Groundwater

· 36 Coasts

· 37 Glaciers

· 38 Planetary Wobbles and Last Ice Age

· 39 Long-term Climate Change

· 40 Short-term Climate change

· 41 Climate Change and Human History

· 42 Plate Tectonics and Natural Resources

· 43 Nonrenewable Energy

· 44 Renewable energy

· 45 Humans, and Climate Change

· 46 History of Life

· 47 The Solar system

· 48 The Lonely Planet