Geology 300: Physical Geology

Instructor: Arthur Reed, P.G.

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:

(missing/broken links to be completed soon)

· 01 Mineralogy and a New View of Earth Origin

· 02 Origin and Evolution of the Early Universe

· 03 Origins of the Elements

· 04 Ur-Minerals, First Crystals in the Cosmos

· 05 Pre-solar Dust Grains—Chemistry Begins

· 06 Coming to Grips with Deep Time

· 07 The Birth of the Solar System

· 08 The Early Solar System—Terrestrial Planets

· 09 Hints from the Gas Giants and Their Moons

· 10 Meteorites—The Oldest Objects You Can Hold

· 11 Mineral Evolution, Go! Chondrite Meteorites

· 12 Meteorite Types and Planetesimals

· 13 Achondrites and Geochemical Affinities

· 14 The Accretion and Differentiation of Earth

· 15 How Did the Moon Form

· 16 The Big Impact

· 17 The Big Six Elements of Early Earth

· 18 The Black Earth—Peridotite to Basalt

· 19 Origins of the Oceans

· 20 Blue Earth and the Water Cycle

· 21 Earth and Mars vs Mercury and Moon

· 22 Gray Earth Clays and the Rise of Granite

· 23 Earths Mineralogy Takes Off

· 24 Moving Continents and Rock Cycle

· 25 Plate Tectonics Changes Everything

· 26 Geochemistry to Biochemistry Raw Materials

· 27 Biomolecules Select Concentrate Assemble

· 28 Why Reproduction

· 29 Eons Eras Strategies of Early Life

· 30 Red Earth Great Oxidation Event

· 31 Earliest Microbial and Molecular Fossils

· 32 Microbial Mats and Which Minerals Can Form

· 33 Earth's Greatest Mineral Explosion

· 34 The Boring Billion Cratons and Continents

· 35 The Supercontinent Cycle

· 36 Feedback Loops and Tipping Points

· 37 Snowball Earth and Hothouse Earth

· 38 The Second Great Oxidation Event

· 39 Deep Carbon—Deep Life, Fuels, and Methane

· 40 Biominerals and Early Animals

· 41 Between Rodinia and Pangaea—Plants on Land

· 42 Life Speeds Up—Oxygen and Climate Swings

· 43 Impact! From Dinosaurs to Mammals

· 44 Impact! From Dinosaurs to Mammals

· 45 Humans and the Anthropocene Epoch

· 46 The Next 5 Billion Years

· 47 The Nearer Future

· 48 Coevolution of Geosphere and Biosphere